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JOHDGAMMOE." 



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very exciting narrative of the wintering of the Fin, Nummelin, 

 at the Briochov Islands in the Yenisej in lat. 70" 48' north. 



I visited the place on the 27th August 1875. It consisted 

 of a fishing post, occupied only in summer, and at that season of 

 the year very attractive, surrounded as it is by luxuriant 

 vegetation of grass and bushes. The houses were situated on 

 a sound running between the Briochov Islands, which form the 

 northernmost group of the labyrinth of islands which occupy 

 the channel of the Yenisej between 69|° and 71° N. L. At the 



" JORDGAMMOR " ON THE BRIOCHOV ISLANDS. 



After a sketch by the Author. 



time of our visit the fishing was over for the season and the 

 place deserted. But two small houses and a number of earth- 

 huts (jorclgammor), all in good repair, stood on the river bank 

 and gave evidence, along with a number of large boats drawn 

 up on land, and wooden vessels intended for salting fish, of the 

 industry which had been carried on there earlier in the summer. 

 It was at this place that Nummelin passed one of the severest 

 winters that Arctic literature has to record.^ 



1 I give the particulars of this wintering partly after communications 

 made to me in conversation by Nummelin, partly after Goteborgs Handeh- 

 och Sjofartstifhring for the 20th and 21st November, 1877. This first and, 

 as far as I know, only detailed narrative of the voyage in question, was 

 dictated to the editor of that journal, reference heing made to the log by 



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