. Handbook of polar discoveries. connection quite a number of Samoyed familiessettled about a dozen years since at Karmakuly, MollerBay, in the northern part of Gooseland. There the cli-mate is milder than in their former Siberian home, vege-tation is abundant for reindeer and other animals, and thetransition from summer hunters — migrating with thechanging seasons north and south to and from the Sibe-rian mainland — to permanent residents of Nova Zembla,is not so great a change for the Samoyeds as would appear. It is imknown when the Novgorod hunters first visitedNova Zembla, but it was proba
. Handbook of polar discoveries. connection quite a number of Samoyed familiessettled about a dozen years since at Karmakuly, MollerBay, in the northern part of Gooseland. There the cli-mate is milder than in their former Siberian home, vege-tation is abundant for reindeer and other animals, and thetransition from summer hunters — migrating with thechanging seasons north and south to and from the Sibe-rian mainland — to permanent residents of Nova Zembla,is not so great a change for the Samoyeds as would appear. It is imknown when the Novgorod hunters first visitedNova Zembla, but it was probably several centuries earlierthan the fateful voyage of WiLLOUGnnv in 1553, or of hissuccessor SiKPHF-NlJoRROUon in 1556 (Chapter IV). Someclaim that Willoughbv sighted Nova Zembla, but the opin-ion of is more probable, that the land seenwas Kolgujcf Island. This leaves to Borrough the honor .VI .oVI f!i mm J? RjxttrcuuJ. ? ..V*- ? vV-J ^ • ^^--i^. -**> S> f] .. ^ crj _iL ft 0* ^i au >t U «i. c. NOVA (Hll,l;i Nova Zembla 23 of being the first European known to visit and give defi-nite information regarding the country. The way wasshown, however, by Russian fishermen, one of whom,LosHAK, called it New Land, or Nova Zembla. Thenas now the Samoyeds pastured reindeer on Waigat Island,south of Borrough (or Waigat) Strait, plied their boats tonorth or south, pitched their conical deerskin tents andset up bloody idols near their sacrificial mounds. On the adjacent mainland assembled each summer,coming distances of four or five hundred miles, Samoyedhunters and reindeer-owners for pasturage and game, fol-lowed closely by Russian traders for barter and specula-tion. Centuries have seen this routine of coming andgoing, until of late years, as Nordenskiold relates, a smallpermanent village, Chabarova, part Russian, part Samoyed,has grown up on the mainland south of Yugor Strait. The next knowledge of Nova Zembla resulted from theefforts of the Amste
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