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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
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old clothes which my comrades and the crew strewed around 
them with generous hand. For we were all convinced that after 
some days we should come to waters where winter clothes would 
be altogether unnecessary, where our want of any article could 
easily be supplied at the nearest port, and where the means of 
A CHUKCH IN SEAL-GUT GREAT COAT. 
After a pliotograjih by L. Palander. 
exchange would not consist ot goods, but of stamped pieces of 
metal and slips of paper. 
On the 7th September, we steamed the whole day along the 
coast in pretty open ice. At night we lay to at a floe. The 
hempen tangles and the trawl-net were put out and yielded a 
very rich harvest. But in the morning we found ourselves 
