210 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. 
I visited the place on the 27th August 1875. It consisted 
of a fishing post, occupied only in summer, and at that season of 
the year very attractive, surrounded as it is hy luxuriant 
vegetation of grass and bushes. The houses were situated on 
a sound running between the Briochov Islands, which form the 
northernmost group of the labyrinth of islands which occupy 
the channel of the Yenisej between 69J° and 71° N. L. At the 
“ JORDGAMxMOR ” ON THE BRIOCHOV I3LANHS. 
After a sketch by the Author. 
time of our visit the fishing was over for the season and the 
place deserted. But two small houses and a number of earth- 
huts (^joTclgammor), all in good repair, stood on the river bank 
and gave evidence, along with a number of large boats drawn 
up on land, and wooden vessels intended for salting fish, of the 
industry which had been carried on there earlier in the summer. 
