The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . instance, the fiosentlial expedition of1871, in which the well-known African traveller and Spitzbergen voyagerBaron von Heuglin, and the Norwegian botanist Aage Aagaard, took partas naturalists ; Payer and Weyprechts voyage of reconnaissance in thesea between Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya in 1871, &c. VI.] TOBIESENS WINTERING ON NOVAYA ZEMLYA. 2:51 tate, and because it shows us various new, hitherto untouchedsides of winter hfe in the High North. Si VERT ToBiESEN
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . instance, the fiosentlial expedition of1871, in which the well-known African traveller and Spitzbergen voyagerBaron von Heuglin, and the Norwegian botanist Aage Aagaard, took partas naturalists ; Payer and Weyprechts voyage of reconnaissance in thesea between Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya in 1871, &c. VI.] TOBIESENS WINTERING ON NOVAYA ZEMLYA. 2:51 tate, and because it shows us various new, hitherto untouchedsides of winter hfe in the High North. Si VERT ToBiESEN was one of the oldest and boldest of theNorwegian walrus-hunting skippers ; he had with life and souldevoted himself to his calling, and in it was exposed to manydangers and difficulties, which he knew how to escape throughcourage and skill. In 1864 he had sailed round the north-eastern i3art of North-east Land, and had been very successfulin hunting; but as he was about to return home, his vessel wasbeset by ice near the southern entrance to Hinloopen Strait,where the same fate also overtook two other hunting sloops, one. •--??% err- SIVERT KRISTIAN TOBIESEN. Born at Tromsoe in 1S21, died on Novaya Zemlya ia 1873. of them commanded by the old hunting skipper Mattilas, whoin the winter of 1872-73 died in a tent at Grey Hook, theother by the skipper J. Istrom. They were compelled to savethemselves in boats, in which they rowed through HinloopenStrait to the mouth of Ice Fjord, where the shipwrecked crewswere met and saved by the Swedish expedition of 1864. Hepassed the winter of 1865-66 happily, in a house built for thepurpose on Bear Island, and communicated to the SwedishAcademy of Sciences a series of valuable meteorological observa-tions, made during the wintering. ^ After 1868 he had made ^ Kungl. Svensku Vetenskaps-alademuns hamUinoar, 1869. 232 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. several successful voyages to Novaya Zemlya, some of whichwere also remarkable from a geographi
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