. The life and voyages of Joseph Wiggins; modern discoverer of the Kara Sea route to Siberia, based on his journals & letters . fora couple of days, says IVIr Seebohm, who givesan account of the proceedings, together with agraphic description of von Gazenkampf, the grasp-ing, shifty old Governor, or Zessedatel, and hiscrafty ways of doing business. On the last portion of the journey, reindeertook the places of the dogs, and the pace was vastlyincreased. Sometimes, writes Mr Seebohm, the animals seemed to fly over the snow. Theparty reached Kureika on April 23, and receiveda hearty welcome from
. The life and voyages of Joseph Wiggins; modern discoverer of the Kara Sea route to Siberia, based on his journals & letters . fora couple of days, says IVIr Seebohm, who givesan account of the proceedings, together with agraphic description of von Gazenkampf, the grasp-ing, shifty old Governor, or Zessedatel, and hiscrafty ways of doing business. On the last portion of the journey, reindeertook the places of the dogs, and the pace was vastlyincreased. Sometimes, writes Mr Seebohm, the animals seemed to fly over the snow. Theparty reached Kureika on April 23, and receiveda hearty welcome from the crew of the quoting the ornithologist, for details notsupplied by the Captain— We had sledged fromNishni Novgorod to the Kureika, a distance of4,860 versts, or 3,240 English miles. Includingstoppages, we had been forty-six days on the road,during whicli we had made use of about a thousandhorses, eighteen dogs, and forty reindeer. Thetotal number of stages was 229. The crew of the Thames were all well, most ofthem looking fatter than when the Captain leftthem. Plenty of lime-juice and dried vegetables,. DOG-SLEDGK AX (»X A SIBEKIAN RIVFR. To face p. 140. i vii] THE THAMES FAST 141 with daily exercise, had preserved their crew of the Aurora , who had winteredsome two hundred miles further north on theYenesei, had fared very differently. They had notbeen, provided witli lime-juice, and consequentlythree of them perished from scurvy. The quarters of the Thames were situated ashort distance up the river Kureika, one of thetributaries of the Yenesei. She w^as close to thenorth bank, about a hundred feet high. The taskof releasing her from the grip of the ice can betold in the Captains own words. The ship was frozen to the ground; but thecrew had succeeded in cutting her out of theice about half way. We now began in earnest,as the water was rising fast, and we feared lestthe ship, being so firmly frozen to the mudbottom, might be dragged
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