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winter, the Yenisejsk-built vessel, the Aitrora (or Sewernoe Sianie) 
was lost. Schwanenberg, who soon afterwards came to the 
neighbourhood, succeeded in purchasing from an Englishman, 
Mr. Seebohm, another little vessel, which was also built at 
Yenisejsk by Mr. Boiling for the purpose of transporting thither 
the goods which I had carried in the Ymer to Korepovskoj, a 
siniovie on the bank of the Yenisej in 71° 19' N.L. The 
goods however had been taken up the river by a steamer, on 
which account the vessel was sold by Boiling to Mr. Seebohm, 
who made an excursion in it to the lower courses of the 
Yenisej for ornithological researches. He named the vessel the 
Ihis. When Mr. Seebohm no longer required it, there was at 
first a proposal that it should be taken over by Captain Wiggins, 
who, as has been already stated, had the year before come to 
the Yenisej with a small steamer, which wintered at the islands 
in the river, and had now stranded during the breaking up of 
the ice. He wished to carry his men on the Ihis either home 
or to the Ob, but the English seamen declared that they would 
not for all the world’s honour and riches sail in that vessel. 
Schwanenberg had thus an opportunity of purchasing the vessel, 
whose name he altered to the Utrennaja Saria (the Dawn), and 
to the surprise of all experienced seamen he actually made a 
successful passage to Norway. The vessel was then towed 
along the coast ho Gothenburg, and through the Gota Canal 
to Stockholm, and finally crossed the Baltic to St. Petersburg. 
On the 13th August Schwanenberg hoisted the Kussian flag 
on his little vessel. During his outward passage he met, in the 
mouth of the Yenisej, Sibiriakoff’s steamer the Fraser, Captain 
Dallmann, who in vain endeavoured to dissuade him from pro¬ 
secuting the adventurous voyage. He anchored at Beli Ostrov 
on the 24th August, passed the Kara Port on the 30th August, 
and reached Yardoe on the 11th September. The Utrennaja 
Saria arrived at Christiania on the 31st October, at Gothenburg 
on the 15th November, passed Motala on the 20th, reached 
