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permit us to remain in the open road where we lay moored ; 

 my comrades' desire to penetrate far into the Chukch jDeninsula 

 could not on that account be satisfied. But short as these 

 excursions were, they give us, however, much information re- 

 garding our winter life, and our contact with the little-known 

 tribe, on the coast of whose homeland the Vega had been beset, 

 and on that account, perha23s, there may be reasons for making 

 extracts from- some of the reports given in to me with reference 

 to these journeys. 



TsAccMiau '^^exf ^ VEGA „ 





MAP OF THE REGION ROUND THE " VEGA'S " WINTER QUARTERS. 



Mainlj' after G. Bove. 

 1. Rotschitlen's tent. 2. Yettugin's tent. 



Palandcrs and Kjcllman's excursion to a reindeer ClivJcch camp 

 south-ivest of PitUkaj, is sketched by the former thus : — 



"On the 17th March, 1879, accompanied by Dr. Kjellman, I 

 went out with a sledge and five men, among them a native as 

 guide, to the reindeer Chukch camp in the neighbourhood of 

 TafFelberg (Table Mountain), with a view to obtain fresh rein- 

 deer flesh. The expedition was fitted out with two days' pro- 

 visions, tent, mattrasses, and iiesks. The reindeer Chukches were 

 met with eleven English miles from the vessel. On an eminence 

 here were found two tents, of which one at the time was unin- 

 habited. The other was occupied by the Chukch, Rotschitlen, 



