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and Klokoy, chief of the civil service, at Archangel, sent out in 

 1832 an expedition with very comprehensive aims from that town, 

 for the purpose of re-establishing the sea-route to the Yenisej, 

 of surveying the east coast of Novaya Zemlya, and of walrus- 

 hunting there. Three vessels were employed, viz., a " carbasse " 

 manned by ten men, including the Commander-lieutenant in 

 the corps of mates Pachtussov, who in previous voyages with 

 Ivanov had become well acquainted with land and people along 



FBIEDRICH BENJAMIN VON LUTKE. 



Born in 1797 in St. Petersburg. 



the coasts of the Polar Sea ; ' the schooner Yenisej under 

 Lieutenat Krotov with ten men ; and a hunting lodja com- 

 manded by the hunting mate Gwosdarev. Pachtussov was to 

 undertake the east coast of Novaya Zemlya, Krotov to sail 



* The carbasse was named, like the vessels of Lasarev and Liitke, the 

 Novaya Zemlya. It was forty-two feet long, fourteen feet beam, and six 

 feet deep, decked fore and aft, and with the open space between protected 

 by canvas from breakers. 



