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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 



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the beach and the remains of a vessel, which, to judge from its 

 construction and the hunting implements scattered about in the 

 neighbourhood, appeared to have belonged to an Archangel 

 hunter, who had been driven by wind or ice from Si^itzbergen 

 or Novaya Zemlya. 



Next summer " the Hedenstrom expeditions " were concluded 

 with the survey of the north coast of Novaya Sibir by Chenizyn, 

 and by a repetition of the attempt to penetrate from Cape 

 Kamennoj over the ice in a north-easterly direction, this time 



PETER FEODOROVITSCII ANJOU. 



Born in 1798 in Russia, died in 1S69 in St. Petersburg. 



carried out by the Cossack Tatarinov, and finally by a renewed 

 exploration of Faddejev Island by Sannikov, Tatarinov found 

 the ice, probably in the end of March, so thin, that he did not 

 dare to proceed farther, and beyond the thin ice the sea was seen 

 to be quite open. Sannikov first explored Faddejev Island. He 

 thouoht he saw from the hills of the island a high land in the 

 north-east, but when he attempted to reach it over the ice, he 

 came upon open water twenty-five versts from land. He there- 

 fore returned the same spring to Ustjansk in order there to 



