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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
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such a literally anarchic and godless crew there would be no 
security for life and property, immorality would be boundless, 
and the weaker without any protection from the violence of the 
stronger sex. This, however, is so far from being the case that 
criminal statistics have been rendered impossible for want of 
crimes, if we except acts of violence committed under the 
influence of liquor. 
CHUKCH BUCKLES AND HOOKS OF IVORY. 
Half the natural size. 
During the winter the Vega was visited daily, as has been 
stated in the account of the wintering, by the people from the 
neighbouring villages, while our vessel at the same time formed 
a resting-place for all the equipages which travelled from the 
western tent-villages to the islands in Behring’s Straits, and vice 
versa. Not only our neighbours, but people from a distance 
whom we had never seen before, and probably would not see 
