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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA, 
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coming from the ocean, reached the heart of Siberia was 
received with great goodwill and hospitality, both by the 
authorities and the common people. But when Johannesen did 
not find here Sibiriakoff’s representative, Kolesoff, he continued 
his voyage up the river, until, on the 8th October, he came to 
the village Njaskaja, 220 versts from Vitim, in about 60° N.L, 
YAKUTSK IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 
(After Witsen.) 
Here he turned back to Yakutsk and laid up the steamer in 
winter quarters a little to the south of that town. 
Both the Fraser and Express and the Lena had thus fully 
answered the purposes intended before the departure of the 
expedition, and their voyages will always form an important 
link in the chain of the attempts through which navigation in 
the Siberian Polar Sea has been opened. 
