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same famous scientific institution that had given him the silver 
medal. I myself travelled the following summer, in 1870, to 
Greenland, and returned thence late in autumn. I then had 
the pleasure of receiving from Captain Johannesen a new paper, 
afterwards inserted in the Ofversigt, of the transactions of the 
Royal Academy of Sciences for the year 1871, p. 157, “Hydro- 
grafiske lakttagelser under en Fangsttour 1870 rundt ora Novaja 
Zemlja.’' Johannesen now as on the first occasion sailed back¬ 
wards and forwards along the west coast of Novaya Zemlya, 
then through the Kara Port, which was passed on the 12th July. 
He then followed the east coast of Yaygats to Mestni Island, 
where he came in contact with Samoyeds, in connection with 
which he makes the remark, certainly quite unexpected by 
philologists, that in the language of the Samoyeds certain 
Norwegian words were recognised/’ Their exterior was not 
at all attractive. They had flat noses, their eyes w^ere dread¬ 
fully oblique, and many had also oblique mouths. The men 
received the foreigners drawn up in a row, with the women 
in the second rank. All were very friendly. On the 11th 
August he was on the coast of Yalmal in 71° 48' N.L., whence 
he sailed over to Novaya Zemlya in order to take on board wood 
and water. He anchored in the neighbourhood of Udde Bay in 
73° 48' N.L., and saw there twenty wild reindeer. Then he 
sailed again over the Kara Sea to Yalmal. 
During these cruisings in the Kara Sea the summer had 
passed. Johaimesen’s vessel was now full, but notwithstanding 
this he determined, at a season of the year when the walrus- 
hunters commonly return to Norway, to see whether the offered 
prize could not be won into the bargain. The course was shaped 
first to the north-east, then westward to the north coast of 
Novaya Zemlya, which was reached on the 3rd September. The 
whole sea here was open, which Johannesen, on the ground 
of finding Norwegian fishing-net floats among the driftwood, 
attributed to the action of the Gulf Stream. Hence he returned 
