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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 



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This gave rise to the supposition that at the sea-bottom animal 

 life was richer, which was also confirmed by the dredging yield. 

 Nowhere was seen on our arrival any trace of man, but a cairn 

 now indicates the place, off which the Vega and the Lena were 

 anchored. 



GRASS FROM ACTINIA BAY. 



Pleuropogon Sabini, R. Br. 



In this sea never before visited by any vessel, however, we 

 were nearly coming in contact with a countryman. For while 

 we lay at anchor in Taimur Sound, Captain Edward Johannesen 

 came into the neighbourhood of the same place with his sailing 



