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heard through the porthole. These reminiscenc^.es 

 interested me very much, for Schwanenburg collected 

 many specimens for Seebohm, and it is probable that 

 many of the skins now in the National Museum were 

 originally obtained by him. Captain Wiggins is still 

 a name to conjure by on the Lower Yenesei. People 

 even now relate how he made the journey to Kras- 

 noyarsk in the winter-time by horse sledges. Not a 

 hundred yards from our hut there was an interesting 

 relic of one of this daring man's ventures. In 1889 

 a cargo of animal bones was sent to Golchika for 

 shipment to Europe through the Kara Sea. The barge 

 that carried them went ashore in the Golchika River, 

 and the remains of her hulk, under a heap of bleached 

 bones, can still be seen on the bank. It is pleasant to 

 find that those Englishmen, such as Captain Wiggins 

 and Messrs. Seebohm and Popham, who have visited 

 the Yenesei country, have left behind them a name 

 which is still remembered for their honourable and 

 honest dealing. It is to be hoped that those traders 

 of other nationalities, on whom the mantle of Wiggins 

 has fallen, and whom the ignorant natives and Siberiaks 

 therefore still call Angliski, will do nothing to destroy 

 this favourable impression. 



After the departure of the Yenesei, we began to 

 look forward to the arrival of the Government steamer, 

 the Lena, which, with her barge, had left Krasnoyarsk 

 on 20th June and was due to reach Golchika on the 

 10th of the following month. We looked especially 

 to this vessel to bring our mails — the first that we had 

 received since we left home at the end of May. There- 



