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THK VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
[chap. 
From the same year too Petermami also publishes very 
remarkable journals of the Norwegian walrus-hunting captains, 
S. Tobiesen, H. Ch. Johannesen, J. N. Isaksen, Soren 
JOHANNESEN, DoERMA, SiMONSEN, and E. Carlsen ; but as none 
of these gallant seamen tha.t year penetrated to the north or 
east beyond the points which their predecessors had reached, 
I may be allowed with regard to their voyages to refer to 
Mittlieilungen for 1872 (pp. 386—391 and 395), also to the 
maps which are inserted in the same volume of that journal 
(pi. 19 and 20), and which are grounded on the working out by 
Prof. H. Mohn, of Christiania, of his countrymen’s observations. 
With respect to Captain E. Carlsen’s voyage, however, it may 
be stated, that in the course of it a discovery was made, which 
has been represented as that of an Arctic Pompeii, remarkably 
well protected against the depredation of the tooth of Time, not 
indeed by lava and volcanic ashes, but by ice and snow. For 
when Carlsen on the 9th September landed on the north-east 
coast of Novaya Zemlya in 76'' 7' N.L., he found there a house, 
10 metres long and 6 metres wide, with the roof fallen in, long 
since abandoned and filled with gravel and ice. From this 
frozen gravel were dug up a large number of household articles, 
books, boxes, &c., which showed that they were relics of Barents’ 
winter dwelling, which now, almost three hundred years after 
the place had been abandoned, came to the light of day, so well 
preserved that they gave a lively idea of the way in v hich the 
European passed his first winter in the true Polar regions. 
When Carlsen had erected a cairn in which he placed a tin 
canister containing an account of the discovery, he took on 
board the most important of the articles which he had found 
and returned to Norway. There he sold them at first for 10,800 
crowns to an Englishman, Mr. Ellis C. Lister Kay, w^ho after¬ 
wards made them over for the price he had paid for them to the 
Dutch Government. They are now to be found arranged at the 
Marine Department at the Hague in a model room, which is an 
