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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA 
[chap. 
roofs then still remained in such a state that one could form an 
idea of their former arrangement and of the life which had 
been carried on in them. Each cabin contained a whole laby¬ 
rinth of very small rooms; dwelling-rooms with sleeping places 
fixed to the walls, bake-rooms with immense fireplaces, bathing 
houses with furnaces for vapour-baths, storehouses for train-oil 
with large train-drenched blubber troughs hollowed out of 
RTHNS OF A SIMOVIE AT KRESTOVSKO.T. 
After a drawing b.y A. Stnxberg. 
enormous tree-stems, blubber tanks with remains of the white 
whale, &c., all witnessing that the place had had a flourishing 
period, when prosperity was found there, when the home was 
regarded with loyalty, and formed in all its loneliness the central 
point of a life richer perhaps in peace and well-being than one 
is inclined beforehand to suppose. 
In 1875 a prikaschik ” (foreman) and three Eussian 
labourers lived all the year round at Goltschicha. Sverevo was 
