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the Gota Canal to Stockholm, and finally crossed the Baltic 

 to St. Petersburg. 



On the loth August Schwanenberg hoisted the Russian flag 

 on his little vessel. During his outward passage he met, in the 

 mouth of the Yenisej, Sibiriakoff's steamer the Fraser, Captain 

 Dallmann, who in vain endeavoured to dissuade him from pro- 

 secuting the adventurous voyage. He anchored at Beli Ostrov 

 on the 24th August, passed the Kara Port on the 30th August, 

 and reached Vardoe on the 11th September. The Utrcnnaja 





GUSTAF ADOLl' NUMMELIN. 



Born at Viborg in 1853. 



Saria arrived at Christiania on the 31st October, at Gothenburg 

 on the 15th November, passed Motala on the 20th, reached 

 Stockholm on the 23rd November and St. Petersburg on the 

 3rd December. Everywhere in Scandinavia the gallant seamen 

 met with the heartiest reception. Their vessel was the first 

 that sailed from the town of Yenisejsk to Europe, and is still, 

 when this is being written, the only one. 



The Dawn is 56 feet long, 14 feet beam, and draws 6 feet of 

 water. Aft there is a little cabin in which there is scant space 



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