XXVi ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 
of their voyage, he says: ‘We first landed on its southern point at the 
mouth of the river Waskina, whence Ruprecht made an excursion into 
the interior with reindeer. After spending ten days here we deter- 
mined to travel right round the island, and began sailing along the 
west coast, landing at the small stream Gusina (N. lat. 69° 26’) and at 
the Konkina ; however, when we had reached the northern end of the 
island we were compelled by an unfavourable wind to turn and steer 
for Swyatoi Nos, on the shore of Timan. In August we again visited 
Kolgujew, and, since we wished to sail round the east coast, we repaired 
to Stanavoi Scharok, where we stayed six days, which Ruprecht again 
utilised for an excursion into the interior. It must, however, be 
mentioned that our stay on Kolguev was made under the most un- 
favourable conditions. Of the sixteen days which we passed at the 
mouth of the Waskina and in Stanavoi Scharok, the weather on ten 
was such that it was impossible to think of investigations and excursions 
on the island. The violent storms did not allow us once to leave the 
cabin.’ 
Thus Professor Saweljew. The work they did in the six days at 
their disposal, excellent as it was, could obviously not be exhaustive, 
and as I spent not six days, but three months, on the island, I was able 
to add a great deal to it. 
In our own day Kolguev has been sighted by the various Arctic 
voyagers going east and north-east, but I can find no record of any 
other visit but one. 
1858.—In this year a priest, who does not give his name, but who, 
I believe, was chief priest of Archangel, sailed to Kolguev in a fisher- 
man’s boat—probably from Mezen, and has left a curious Russian 
paper about it,! which, in the translation, is very quaint. 
‘I intended to go to Kolguev,’ he said, ‘to preach Jesus Christ and 
to baptize. Before starting there I sang Ze Deums during three 
days. . . . The chief thing to be dreaded is the crossing of 150 versts 
of the open sea. 
‘. . . I do not desire to speak about all I had to endure during 
this voyage. One cannot gain much lying on one’s back; if you use 
knowledge and prudence in dealing with the sea you shall never be 
1 Maximow’s Morskod Sbornik. 
