The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . n hearbeitet. 21 zu Peterra. Geogr. Mittheiluvgen, Goth a, 1867. 2 Bulletin scientifiqiie puhJie par VAcademie Imp. de St. Petersburg, t. ii.(1837), p. 315 ; iii. (1838), p. 96, and other places. VI.] YON KRUSENSTERNS VOYAGE. 217 the ueiglibourhood of warm marine currents and of a sea openall the year round at a short distance from the coast. With this unfortunate and to all appearance ill-arrangedexpedition the Russian Novaya Zemlya. voyages ceas
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . n hearbeitet. 21 zu Peterra. Geogr. Mittheiluvgen, Goth a, 1867. 2 Bulletin scientifiqiie puhJie par VAcademie Imp. de St. Petersburg, t. ii.(1837), p. 315 ; iii. (1838), p. 96, and other places. VI.] YON KRUSENSTERNS VOYAGE. 217 the ueiglibourhood of warm marine currents and of a sea openall the year round at a short distance from the coast. With this unfortunate and to all appearance ill-arrangedexpedition the Russian Novaya Zemlya. voyages ceased for along time. For before the beQ-inuinfj of the Norwegian huntinsfwe have only two other Russian voyages to notice in our sketchof the history of the North East passage. The first of these owed its origin to the desire of the captainof a Russian man-of-war, Paul von Keusenstern, to under-take a voyage in the Polar Sea in a schooner, the Yerniak,which belonged to him and which was for the time lying at thePetchora, in order to survey the coasts lying to the intended himself to undertake the command, and to take. AUGUST KARLOVITZ ZIVOLKA. Born in ISIO at Warsaw; died in 1839 on Novaya Zemlya.(After a pen-and-ink drawing communicated by Herr Paul Dasclikoff.) with him as second in command his son Paul von in the Russian marine. The latter was sent beforeto equip the Ycrniak, which he did with wonderful judgmentand skill, in the best way possible, in a region where at thattime nearly every requisite for the equipment of a vessel waswanting. The elder Krusenstern was unable to reach the placeof sailing in time, on which account the command was given tothe son. He left the mouth of the Petchora on the -^tFAug) days after he reached the Kara port, which was completely 218 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [cHAr. free of ice, as was the sea to the eastward. But the late seasonof the year, the defective equipment of the Ycrmak, and, itwould appea
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