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steamer to Yenisejsk to be forwarded from thence to China, 
Moscow, St. Petersburg, &c. Among other things he is also the 
owner of very thick coal-seams in the Noril Mountains lying 
about 60 kilometres from Dudino. This simple and unostenta¬ 
tious man has been very obliging to all the scientific men who 
have visited the region. His dwelling, situated in the neighbour¬ 
hood of the limit of trees, is probably the stateliest palace of 
the Siberian tundra, admired by natives from far and near. It 
is built of large logs, consists of two stories, has a roof painted 
green, many windows, with decorated frames painted white and 
blue; the rooms are warm, provided with carpets of furs, pot- 
flowers in the windows, numerous sacred pictures, photographs, 
and copper engravings. 
On the 7th September all was ready for departure. The 
Fraser and Express weighed anchor to commence the return 
voyage down the river. At Tolstojnos two days after they met 
the steamer Moshvm^ of Bremen, Captain Dallmann, having on 
board the crew of the Norwegian steamer Zaritza, Captain Brun, 
which had stranded at the' mouth of the Yenisej and been 
1 The Moshwa was the first steamer which penetrated from the Atlantic to 
the town of Yenisejsk. The principal dates of this voyage may therefore 
be quoted here. 
Baron Knoop, along with several Eiissian merchants, had chartered in 
1878 a steamer, the Louise ; but this vessel stranded on the coast of Nor¬ 
way. The Zaritza, another Norwegian steamer, was chartered instead to 
carry the Louise's goods to their destination. But this vessel too stranded 
at the mouth of the Yenisej, and was abandoned by the crew, who were 
rescued by a small steamer, the Moshwa, which accompanied the Zaritza. In 
this steamer Captain Dallmann, the Bremen merchant Helwig Schmidt, and 
Ehlertz, an official in the Russian finance office, now travelled up the river. 
The Moshwa had a successful voyage, arriving on the 4th September at 
Goltschicha, passing Turuchansk in consequence of a number of delays 
only on the 24th September, reaching Podkamenaja Tunguska on the 1st 
October, and on the 14th of the same month its destination, a winter 
harbour on the Tschorna river, some miles north of Yenisejsk. (Fahrt auf 
dem Yenissej von der Mundung bis Yenisejsk im Sommer 1878; Petcrmann’s 
Mittheilungen, 1879, p 81.) 
