VI.] 
COMMERCIAL VOYAGES TO SIBERIA. 
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The voyages of the Proeven and the Ymer led to several 
purely commercial voyages to the Yenisej and the Ob, of which 
however I can here with the greatest brevity mention only 
the following: 
The Swedish steamer Fraser, commanded by the German 
Captain Dallmann, after having been fitted out at Gothenburg 
JOSEPH WIGGINS. 
on Sibiriakoff’s account, sailed in 1877 with a cargo from Bremen 
to the Yenisej and back. The vessel left Hammerfest on the 
9th August, arrived at Goltschicha on the 21st August, com¬ 
menced the return voyage on the 14th September, and on 
the 24th of the same month was back at Hammerfest. 
was the Ob, but that on account of currents and shoals which he 
encountered at the mouth of this river, he altered his plan, and reached 
the Yenisej in the beginning of September. 
