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abandoned by the crew. In the case of this stranding, however^ 
the damage done had not been greater than that, when the 
Fraser fell in with the stranded Zaritza, it could be pumped dry, 
taken off the shoal, and, the engine having first been put in 
order, carried back to ^lorway. On the 19th September all the 
three vessels arrived at Matotschkin Sound, where they lay 
some days in Beluga Bay in order to take in water and trim 
the cargo and coal; after which on the 22nd of the same month 
they sailed through the sound to the west, and on the 26th 
anchored at Hammerfest in good condition'and with full cargoes.^ 
The goods, which now for the first time were carried from the 
Yenisej to Europe, consisted of about 600 tons—'tallow, wheat, 
rye and oats.. The goods imported into Siberia consisted mainly 
of 16 tons nails, 8 tons horseshoes, 4 tons horsenails, 16|- tons 
bar iron, 33 tons tobacco, 60 tons salt, 24 casks petroleum, an 
iron lighter in pieces with the necessary adjuncts of anchors, fcc.^ 
Before I begin to give an account of the voyage of the Lena.' 
I must briefly mention the steps which Mr. Sibiriakoff took for 
her safety during her voyage from the mouth of the river, where 
she was to part from the Yega^ to her proper destination, the town 
of Yakutsk. It is naturally very difficult for a vessel to seek 
her way without a pilot through an extensive delta completely 
unknown in a hydrographic respect, and crossed by a large 
number of deeper or shallower river arms. Mr. Sibiriakoff had 
therefore arranged that a river pilot should meet the Lena at the 
north point of the delta, and had through Mr. Kolesoff negoti¬ 
ated with him the following contract, which I reproduce here in 
1 The particulars of the voyages of these vessels are taken from a copy 
which I have received of Captain Emil Nilsso.n’s log. 
^ The goods carried by me and by Wiggins to the Yenisej in 1876, 
and those which Schwanenberg carried thence in 1877, were properly only 
samples on a somewhat large scale. I have no knowledge of the goods 
which the Zaritza had on board when she ran aground at the mouth of 
the Yenisej. 
