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trated rum, pickles, preserved vegetables, mulberry- 

 jam, dried fruit, and preserved cream. After some 

 days' stay at Copenhagen, necessary for the shipment 

 and stowage of the supplies, Ave left there on the 

 26th of June, and arrived at Gothenburg on the 

 following day. At Gothenburg the following gen- 

 tlemen embarked : F. R Kjellman, botanist, Fellow 

 of Upsala University ; Dr A. Stuxberg, zoologist ; 0. 

 !N"ordqvist, lieutenant in the Russian army, interpreter 

 and zoologist ; Dr S. Almqvist, medical officer of the 

 expedition ; and a personal attendant for Professor 

 Xordenskiold. Provision and coal supply were com- 

 pleted here ; and also we shipped the scientific equip- 

 ment; sledges, and pemmican for sledge-journeys; and 

 two collie dogs, bought in Scotland. 



On the afternoon of the 4th of July we left Gothen- 

 burg, not again to see the dear shores of our native 

 land for nearly two years. A stiff contrary wind 

 delayed our voyage to our next place of destination, 

 Tromsoe, where we did not arrive until July 17th. 

 Here embarked the leader of the expedition, Pro- 

 fessor K"ordenskibld, and three Norwegian fishermen. 



Our number was now complete, and made thirty 

 men all told, comprising nine officers and scientific 

 gentlemen, three non-commissioned officers, and 

 eighteen of a crew. In Tromsoe a full supply of 

 water and coals was taken in, also a parcel of furs 

 and sundry other articles. 



At our departure from Tromsoe the coal-supply 



