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ino- to Petermann, but 81° 11' Long, according to the Tromsoe 

 Stiftstidcndc. He returned through -Yugor Schar, which was 

 passed on the 26th September.^ The same year E. Johannesen, 

 after long endeavouring without success to make his way into 

 the Kara Sea through the southern strait, sailed northwards 

 along the west coast of Novaya Zemlya, and did not leave Cape 

 Nassau until the 15th October. 



From the same year too Petermann also publishes very 

 remarkable journals of the Norwegian walrus-hunting captains, 

 S. ToBiESEN, H. Ch. Johannesen, J. N. Isaksen, Soren 

 Johannesen, Doeema, Simonsen, and E. Carlsen ; but as none 

 of these gallant seamen that year penetrated to the north or 

 east beyond the points which their predecessors had reached, 

 I may be allowed with regard to their voyages to refer to 

 Mittheilungeii for 1872 (pp. 386—391 a,nd 395), also to the 

 maps which are inserted in the same volume of that journal 

 (pi. 19 and 20), and which are grounded on the working out by 

 Prof. H. MoHN, of Christiania, of his countrymen's observations. 

 With respect to Captain E. Carlson's voyage, however, it may 

 be stated, that in the course of it a discovery was made, which 

 has been represented as that of an Arctic Pompeii, remarkably 

 well protected against the depredation of the tooth of Time, not 

 indeed by lava and volcanic ashes, but by ice and snow. For 

 when Carlsen on the 9th September landed on the north-east 

 coast of Novaya Zemlya in 76" 7' N.L., he found there a house, 

 10 metres long and 6 metres wide, with the roof fallen in, long 

 since abandoned and filled with gravel and ice. From this 

 frozen gravel were dug up a large number of household articles, 

 books, boxes, &c., which showed that they were relics of Barents' 

 winter dwelling, which now, almost three hundred years after 

 the place had been abandoned, came to the light of day, so well 

 ])reserved that they gave a lively idea of the way in which the 

 European passed his first winter in the true Polar regions. 

 When Carlsen had erected a cairn in which he placed a tin 

 canister containing an account of the discovery, he took on 

 board the most important of the articles which he had found 

 and returned to Norway. There he sold them at first for 10,800 

 crowns to an Englishman, Mr. Ellis C. Lister Kay, who after- 

 wards made them over for the price he had paid for them to the 

 Dutch Government. They are now to be found arranged at the 

 Marine Department at the Hague in a model room, which is an 

 exact reproduction of the interior of Barents' house on Novaya 

 Zemlya." 



^ Tromsoe Stiftsiidende,\%l\, 1^0. 83; Peterniann's J/zW/^eikniriSH, 1872, 

 p. 384. 



" Cf. The Three Voyages of WUVmvi Barents, by Gerrit de Veer, 2nd 

 Edition, with an Introduction hy Lieutenant Koolenians Beynen. London, 

 1876 (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, No. 54). 



