UNDISCOVERED SHEEP IN ASIA 73 



Cape fog and darkness had again closed in and we lost 

 sight of this extremity of Siberia. In these auspicious 

 conditions we passed through Bering Strait, and, for 

 the first time in our lives, entered the Arctic Ocean. 



It was difficult for those of us who were not sailors 

 to get our bearings in the all-concealing fog, but during 

 the forenoon after the day on which we left Ittygran 

 the anchor went down, the fog horn blew several 

 times, and a quarter of an hour later several walrus-skin 

 boats came alongside. 



We were anchored about one-half mile off the beach 

 at Welen, the largest Chukchi village on the Arctic 

 coast, situated just on the north side of East Cape. 



