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vessel and sailed along the east coast north of Matotschkin Sound 
from the July to the August without meeting with any 
obstacle from ice. During this voyage he passed a very good 
harbour in 72* 26' N.L., in a hay, called Liitke’s Bay. Pach- 
tussov then returned through Matotschkin Sound to the Petchora. 
Even along the east coast of North Novaya Zemlya the sea was 
open, but the stock of provisions, intended at their departure 
from Archangel for fourteen months, was now so low, that the 
gallant Polar explorer could not avail himself of this opportunity 
of perhaps circumnavigating the whole of Novaya Zemlya. 
Of the two other vessels that sailed from Archangel at the 
same time as Pachtussov’s, the lodja returned heavily laden with 
the spoils of the chase, but on the other hand nothing was ever 
heard of the Ycnisej. A concern, not without justification, for 
its fate, and the desire to, acquire as good knowledge of the east 
coast of the North Island as had been obtained of that of the 
South, gave occasion to Pachtussov’s second voyage. 
For this the Government fitted out two vessels, a schooner and 
a '' carhasse,” which Avere named after the two officers of the 
Yenisej, Krotov and Kasakov. The command of the former was 
undertaken by Pachtussov, and of the latter by the mate 
ZivoLKA. This time they wintered in 1834-35 on the south 
side of Matotschkin Sound at the mouth of the river Tschirakina, 
in a house built for the purpose, for which they used, besides 
materials brought with them, the remains of three old huts, 
found in the neighbourhood, and the wreck of Eossmuislov’s 
vessel which still lay on the beach. The house was a joalace in 
comparison with that in which Pachtussov wintered before. 
It consisted of two rooms, one 21 feet by 16 feet, intended 
for the crew (fourteen men), the other 12 feet by 10 feet, 
for the officers and surgeon, with a bath-house in addition. 
Matotschkin Sound was frozen over for the first time on the |th 
November. The thermometer never sank below the freezing- 
point of mercury, and the cold of AAunter could be easily borne, 
