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June, but did not penetrate farther than in 1784. The unfavour¬ 
able issue was ascribed to the vessels’ unserviceableness for 
voyages in the Polar Sea, in consequence of which the Board 
of Admiralty ordered two other boats, 50 to 60 feet long, to be 
built for the expedition, which were jDlaced under the command 
of Skueatov and SuCHOTiN, Muravjev being besides replaced 
by Malygin who sailed with the old vessels on the 1736 
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down the Petchora river, at whose mouth the Ex]pedition was 
wrecked. Without permitting himself to be frightened by this, 
Malygin ordered his men to go on board the other vessel, in 
which with great dangers and difficulties they penetrated through 
the drift-ice to Bolgoj Island. Here on the fth August they 
fell in with the new vessels sent from Archangel. Suchotin was 
now sent back to Archangel on board the Oh; Malygin and 
Skuratov sailed in the new vessels to the Kara river and 
wintered there. During the winter 1736-1737 the men suffered 
only slightly from scurvy, which was cured by anti-scorbutic 
plants growing in the region. The ice in the Kara river did not 
break up until the June, but so much ice still drifted about 
in the sea that a start could not be made until the July. 
On the the vessels anchored in the sound which I have 
named Malygin Sound. Here they were detained by head 
winds 25 days. Then they sailed on round a cape, which the 
Samoyeds call Yalmal, up the Gulf of Ob to the mouth of the 
river, which was reached on the ^ September, 1737, and then 
up the river to Soswa, where the vessels were laid up in winter 
quarters. The crews were taken to Beresov. Malygin returned 
to Petersburg, after having given Lieut. Skuratov and the second 
mate Golovin a commission to carry the vessels back to the 
Dwina the following year. They did not get back until August 
1739. The return voyage thus also occupied two years, and was 
attended with much difficulty and danger. 
Six years in all had thus gone to the voyage from Archangel 
to the Ob and back, which now can be accomplished without 
