TKAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND 

 SPOET. 



FROM 'BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.' 



THE NORTH-EAST PASSAGE: 



NARRATIVE OP LIEUTENANT PALANDEK, SWEDISH ROYAL 

 NAVY, COMMANDER OP THE EXPLORING VESSEL. 



[MAGA. MARCH I860.] 



YOKOHAMA, Sept. 12, 1879. 



DTJEING a long succession of years numerous en- 

 deavours have been made to sail from Europe 

 to the Pacific Ocean by the north of America or Asia 

 or, in other words, to discover the so-called North- 

 west Passage by the north of America, or North-east 

 Passage by the north of Asia. At first these at- 

 tempts were made with the hope that by these routes 

 sea-communication might be obtained between Europe 

 and the countries of the Pacific. That hope is now 

 abandoned ; and the voyages which during later 



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