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KONYAM BAY. 
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unbroken ice, but in the mouth of the most northerly of the 
fjords, Konyam Bay. 
This portion of the Chukch Peninsula had been visited before 
us by the corvette Senjavin, commanded by Captain, afterwards 
Admiral, Fr. Liitke, and by an English Franklin Expedition on 
board the Plover, commanded by Captain Moore. Liitke stayed 
here with his companions, the naturalists Mertens, Posters, and 
Kittlitz, some days in August 1828, during which the harbour 
was surveyed and various observations in ethnography and the 
natural sciences made. Moore wintered at this place in 1848-49. 
I have already stated that we have his companion, Lieut. W. H. 
Hooper, to thank for very valuable information relating to the 
tribes which live in the neighbourhood. The region appears to 
have been then inhabited by a rather dense population. Now 
there lived at the bay where we had anchored only three 
reindeer-Chukch families, and the neighbouring islands must 
at the time have been uninhabited, or perhaps the arrival of 
the Vega may not have been observed, for no natives came on 
board, which otherwise would probably have been the case. 
The shore at the south-east part of Konyam Bay, in which 
the Vega now lay at anchor for a couple of days, consists of a 
rather desolate bog, in which a large number of cranes were 
breeding. Farther into the country several mountain, summits 
rise to a height of nearly 600 metres. The collections of the 
zoologists and botanists on this shore were very scanty, but on 
the north side of the bay, to which excursions were made with 
the steam-launch, grassy slopes were met with, with pretty high 
bushy thickets and a great variety of flowers, which enriched 
Dr. Kjellman’s collection of the higher plants from the north 
coast of Asia with about seventy species. Here were found too 
the first land mollusca (Succinea, Limax,- Helix, Pupa, &c.) on 
the Chukch Peninsula.^ 
^ We have already found some land mollusca at Port Clarence, but none 
at St. Lawrence Bay. The northernmost find of such animals now known 
