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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 



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old clofclies which my comrades and the crew strewed around 

 them with generous hand. For we were all convinced that after 

 some days we should come to waters where winter clothes would 

 be altogether unnecessary, where our want of any article could 

 easily be supplied at the nearest port, and where the means of 

 exchange would not consist of goods, but of stamped pieces of 

 metal and slips of paper. 



On the 7th ?^eptember, we steamed the whole day along the 



A OHUKCH IN SEAL-GUT GREAT COAT. 



After a rhotograph by L. Palander. 



CDast in pretty open ice. At night we lay to at a floe. The 

 hemjaen tangles and the trawl-net were put out and yielded a 

 very rich harvest. But in the morning we fovmd ourselves 

 again so surrounded by ice and fog, that, after several unsuccess- 

 ful attempts to make an immediate advance, we were compelled 

 to lie-to at a large piece of drift-ice near the shore. When the 

 fog had lightened so much that the vessel could be seen from 

 the land, we were again visited by a large number of natives, 

 whom as before we entertained as best we could. They invited 



