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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 



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already inhabited or wandered about in tlie present Siberia, and 

 brovight thence vakiable furs of the black fox, sable, beaver, &c. 

 The northernmost living men were said to be handsome, tall and 

 stout, but very pale for want of the sun. They obeyed no king 

 or chief, but were coarse and uncivilised and lived as beasts.-^ 

 Among the products of the northern countries white bears arc 

 mentioned, from which it appears that at that time the hunters 



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MAP OF THE WORLD AFTER FBA MAURO FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 



(From 11 maDpamondo di Fra Mauro Camaldolese descritto ed illustrato da D. Placido Ziiria, 



Venezia, 1806.) 



had already reached the coast of the Polar Sea. But Marco 

 Polo nowhere says expressly that Asia is bounded on the north 

 by the sea. 



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1 Homines illius regionis sunt pulchri, magni, etcorpulenti, sed sunt mul- 

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