The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . p. 260; , Si^enska expeditionen till Spetshergen 1861 (p. 435) ; Duner andNordenskiold, >Srens^Yf Expeditioner till Spetsbergen och Jan Mayenl863 och1864 (p. 101). 2 Before 1858 there is to be found in Petermanns Mittheilungen only asingle notice of the Norwegian Spitzbergen hunting, the existence ofwhich was at the time probably known to no great number of Europeangeographers. VT.] JOHANNESENS VOYAGE, 1869. 225 immediately followed by several Norwe
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . p. 260; , Si^enska expeditionen till Spetshergen 1861 (p. 435) ; Duner andNordenskiold, >Srens^Yf Expeditioner till Spetsbergen och Jan Mayenl863 och1864 (p. 101). 2 Before 1858 there is to be found in Petermanns Mittheilungen only asingle notice of the Norwegian Spitzbergen hunting, the existence ofwhich was at the time probably known to no great number of Europeangeographers. VT.] JOHANNESENS VOYAGE, 1869. 225 immediately followed by several Norwegian hunters, one ofAvhom, Edward Johannesen, made a very remarkable voyage,of which I will here give a brief account. Joliamiesen anchored on the 31st May, 1869, at Meschdu-schar Island, without having seen any drift-ice in the courseof his voyage. He then sailed up along the west coast ofNovaya Zemlya in nearly open water past Matotschkin Soundto Cape Nassau, which was reached on the 19th June. Hencehe returned, following the coast toward the south, until, on the29th June, he sailed throucrh the Kara Port into the Kara ELLING CAKLSEN. Born at Tromsoe in 1819. This was passed in very open water, and after coming to itseastern side he followed the coast of Yalmal towards the noithto Beli Ostrov. This island was reached on the 7th August, andfrom it he steered south along the east coast of Novnya Zemlyato the Kara Port, through which he returned to Norway.^ The same yenr. the English sportsman, Mr. John Palliser^sailed across the Kara Sea, through Matotschkin Schar to BeliOstrov. He returned through Yugor Schar with abundance ^ The first account of tins voya.^^e was ))nl)lished in Ofcersifft of SveiisLaVetenskaps-akademippsforhandUngar, 1870, ]>. Atkenceum, 186J, p. 498. Petennanns 3Iittheilunr/en, 1869, p. 391. 22G THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [ciiAr. of booty ^ from the hunting-grounds where formerly thewalruses tumbled undisturbed among the drift-ice, and wherethe w
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