16 TKAVEL, ADVENTUKE, AND SPORT. 



letters and telegrams were despatched to be further 

 transmitted from Norway. 



On the 9th of August the Express left us in tow 

 of the Fraser, and steered up the Yenisei, to ship at 

 the appointed place, Yakovieva, the cargo formerly 

 mentioned. 



After having mapped the harbour, prosecuted vari- 

 ous scientific investigations, and made the ship clear 

 for sea, we left our anchorage early on the morning 

 of the 10th of August, and steered for the Arctic 

 Sea. The course was set for the Kammeni Islands, 

 with the intention of afterwards following the coast 

 of Taimyr Land to Taimyr Island. Already, during 

 the first day, we met several small islands, which, 

 according to the chart we had, should have lain sixty 

 miles farther east. 



This was not the last time we made the discovery 

 that the coast was described in this chart as much 

 farther east than in reality it is. This was particu- 

 larly noticeable when we reached the other side of 

 Cape Tchelyuskin, where, according to the map, we 

 sailed over long stretches of land. 



The map which we used as a chart had been con- 

 structed by the Eussian general staff, and was founded 

 upon old delineations from the seventeenth and eigh- 

 teenth centuries. We found the coast correctly 

 delineated for the first time from the other side of 

 Kolyma River to Koliutchin Bay. That portion has 

 been described by Admiral von Wrangel as recently 



