80 THE FOREST LANDS OF NORTHERN RUSSIA. 
Barents, or, at all events, to have visited the place where 
he wintered, until 1871. No one but he had rounded the 
north-east point of bleak Novaia Zemlaia. In 1869, how- 
ever, and on the 16th of May, Captain Carlsen, a Nor- 
wegian of much experience in the North Sea trade, sailed 
from Hammerfest in a sloop of sixty tons, called the Solid. 
On the 7th of September he reached Ice Haven, and on 
the 9th discovered a rude wooden house standing at the 
head of the bay. Its dimensions were 32 feet by 20, and 
it was constructed of planks measuring from 14 to 16 
inches in breadth, and 14 inches thick. These, it was 
evident, had belonged to a ship, and amongst them were 
several oak beams. Heaps of bones of seal, bear, reindeer, 
and walrus, as well as several large puncheons, were col- 
lected round the hut. It was the winter prison of Barents 
and his companions, and had never been entered by human - 
foot since they had abandoned it. The cooking-pans stood 
over the fireplace, the old clock hung against the wall ; 
there were the books, and implements, and tools, and 
weapons, which had been of so much service two hundred 
and seventy-eight years befure. It was an Arctic repro- 
duction of the legend of the hundred years’ sleep of the 
fairy princess. 
‘Captain Carlsen gives the following list of articles 
found in the lone hut on the shore of Novaia Zemlaia :— 
Tron frame over the fireplace, with shifting bar; two ship 
cooking-pans of copper, found standing on the iron frame, 
with the remains of a copper scoop; copper bands, pro- 
bably at one time fastened round pails; bar of iron; iron 
crowbar; one long and two small gun-barrels; two bores 
or augers, each three feet in length ; chisel, padlock, caulk- 
ing iron, three gouges, and six files; plate of zinc ; earthen- 
ware jar; tankard, with zinc lid; lower half of another 
tankard ; six fragments of pepper pots ; tin meat-strainer ; 
pair of boots ; sword; fragments of old engravings, with 
Latin couplets underneath them; three Dutch books; a 
small piece of metal; nineteen cartridge cases, some still 
full of powder; iron chest, with lid, and intricate lock- 
