CONTENTS OF VOL. 1. 
Introduction Page 1 
CHAPTER I. 
Departure—Tromsoe—Members of tbe Exhibition—Stay at Maosoe—Limit of 
Trees—Climate—Scurvy and Antiscorbutics—The first doubling of North 
Cape—Othere’s account of his Travels—Ideas concerning the Geography of 
Scandinavia current during the first half of the sixteenth century—The 
oldest Maps of the North—Herbertstein’s account of Istoma’s voyage— 
Gustaf Vasa and the North-East Passage—Willoughby and Chancellor’s 
voyages .......... Pages 34—68 
CHAPTER II. 
Departure from Maosoe—Gooseland—State of the Ice—The Vessels of the 
Expedition assemble at Chabarova—The Samoyed town there—The Church— 
Russians and Samoyeds—Visit to Chabarova in 1875—Purchase of Samoyed 
Idols—Dress and dwellings of the Samoyeds—Comparison of the Polar 
Races—Sacrificial Places and Samoyed Grave on Waygats Island visited— 
Former accounts of the Samoyeds—Their place in Ethnography. 
Pages 71—104 
CHAPTER III. 
From the Animal World of Novaya Zemlya—The Fulmar Petrel—The Rotge or 
Little Auk—Brunnich’s Guillemot—The Black Guillemot—The Arctic Puffin 
—The Gulls—Richardson’s Skua—The Tern—Ducks and Geese—The Swan 
—Waders—The Snow Bunting—The Ptarmigan—The Snowy Owl—The 
Reindeer—The Polar Bear—The Arctic Fox—The Lemming—Insects—The 
Walrus—The Seal—Whales. Pages 107—170 
CHAPTER IV. 
The Origin of the names Yugor Schar and Kara Sea—Rules for Sailing through 
Yugor Schar—The “Highest Mountain” on Earth—Anchorages—Entering 
the Kara Sea—Its Surroundings—The Inland-ice of Novaya Zemlya—True 
Icebergs rare in certain parts of the Polar Sea—The Natural Conditions of 
