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SANNIKOV EE ACHES KOTELNOJ ISLAND. 
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equip a caravan consisting of twenty-three reindeer, which 
started on the May to go over the ice to Kotelnoj Island, 
which could be reached only with great difficulty in consequence 
of “ leads ” in the ice and the large quantity of salt water which 
had accumulated upon it. The reindeer were exceedingly 
enfeebled, but recovered rapidly on reaching land, so that 
PETEE FEODOEOVITSCU ANJOU, 
Born in 1798 in Russia, died in 1869 in St. Petersburg. 
Sannikov was able under specially favourable circumstances to 
make a large number of interesting excursions, among others one 
across the island. He stated that on the heights in the interior 
of it there were found skulls and bones of horses, oxen, 
“buffaloes” (Ovibos ?) and sheep in so large numbers, that 
