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MEMBERS OF THE EXPEDITION. 
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P. O. Faeste, boatswain . 
S. Andersson, carpenter. 
J. Hangman, walrus-hunter^. 
P. Johnsen, walrus-hunter. 
P. Sivertsen, walrus-hunter .... 
Th. A. Bostnira, assistant to the scientific 
men. 
born 23rd Sep. 1856 
„ 3rd Sep. 1847 
,, 23rd Jan. 1825 
„ 15th May 1845 
,, 2nd 3 an. 1853 
,, 21st Sep. 1857 
There was also on boa.rd the Vega during the voyage from 
Tromsoe to Port Dickson, as commissioner for Mr. Sibiriakoff, 
Mr. S. J. Serebrenikoff, who had it in charge to oversee the 
taking on board and the landing of the goods that were to be 
carried to and from Siberia in the Fraser and Expy'ess. These 
vessels had sailed several days before from Vardoe to Chaborova 
in Yugor Schar, where they had orders to wait for the Vega. 
The Lena, again, the fourth vessel that was placed at my 
disposal, had, in obedience to orders, awaited the Vega in 
the harbour of Tromsoe, from which port these two steamers 
were now to proceed eastwards in company. 
After leaving Tromsoe, the course was shaped at first within 
the archipelago to Maosoe, in whose harbour the Vega was to 
make some hours’ stay, for the purpose of posting letters in 
the post-office there, probably the most northerly in the world. 
But during this time so violent a north-west wind began to 
blow, that we were detained there three days. 
Maosoe is a little rocky island situated in 71° N. L., thirty-two 
kilometres south-west from North Cape, in a region abounding 
in fish, about halfway between Bred Sound and Mageroe Sound. 
The eastern coast of the island is indented by a bay, which 
forms a well-protected harbour. Here, only a few kilometres 
south of the northernmost promontory of Europe, are to be 
found, besides a large number of fishermen’s huts, a church, 
shop, post-office, hospital, &c.; and I need scarcely add, at 
^ Haugan had formerly for a long series of years carried his own vessel 
to Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya, and was known as one of the most 
fortunate walrus-hunters of the Norwegian Polar Sea fleet. 
