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KOLYUTSCHIN BAY. 
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Bay runs three-quarters of a mile south-west of Yettugin’s tent, 
which was situated in 66° 42' 4" North Lat., and 186° 24' 0" 
Long., east from Greenwich. Dr. Almquist had walked four or five 
miles along the eastern shore of the hay, which at most places is 
perpendicular with a height of fifteen metres. In consequence 
of this discovery we determined to continue our hydrographical 
observations as far as the bottom of the bay, which, according to 
Yettugin s account, was two days march from the tent. But we 
could not carry out our plan in consequence of our guide’s 
laziness, for he declared that on no conditions would he 
accompany us farther. Neither entreaties nor threats availed 
to disturb this his resolution. I endeavoured myself to drive 
the sledges, but the dogs would not move out of the spot, 
though, following Rotschitlen’s system, I thrashed them very 
soundly. 
“ The place where Yettugin’s tent was pitched offered us a 
view of an extensive snow-plain, which was enclosed on all sides 
by high hills. In the north and north-east Table Mount and 
the Tenen hill keep off the north winds, and to the south the 
encampment is protected by a long and high mountain chain 
from the winds coming from that quarter. I calculated the 
height of some of the mountains at from 1200 to 1500 metres, 
and their azure-blue colour furrowed by dark lines appears to 
me to indicate the presence of ice on the slopes. One of the 
summits of this mountain chain was easily recognisable. It was 
a truncated cone, perhaps 1500 metres high. Kolyutschin Bay 
lies between these mountains and Yettugin’s tent. Its western 
shore also appears to rise perpendicularly from the sea, and it is 
higher than the eastern. The bay, which appears to be much 
larger tha>n it is represented on the maps, was covered with level 
ice; only here and there a piece of ice covered with snow was 
seen sticking up. 
“ As we were forced to desist from visiting the interior of Koly¬ 
utschin Bay, we determined to go to the ground where Yettugin’s 
reindeer pastured. We therefore left the tent on the evening 
of the 15th and travelled E.N.E. The warmth, which had now 
commenced, began to make travelling over snow fields difficult; 
the dogs sank to the stomach, and not unfrequently we had to 
alight in order to help the poor animals to climb the hills we were 
obliged to ascend. Scarcely however had they come to the 
reindeer tracks before even the most exhausted of them rushed 
along at the top of their speed, which might be pleasant 
enough uphill, but when they were coming down it was very 
dangerous, because the slope nearly always ends with a steep 
