The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . eighs. Pachtussovs voyages in 1832-35.^ W. Brandt, merchant, ^ These remarkable voyages were described for the first time, after theaccounts of Zivolka, by the academician K. E. v. Baer in Bulletin scienti-fique puhl. par V Acad. Imp. des Sciences de St. Petersburg., t. ii. No. 9, 10,11 (1837). Before this there does not appear to have been in St. Petersburgany knowledge of Pachtussovs voyages, the most remarkable which thehistory of Russian Polar Sea exploration
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . eighs. Pachtussovs voyages in 1832-35.^ W. Brandt, merchant, ^ These remarkable voyages were described for the first time, after theaccounts of Zivolka, by the academician K. E. v. Baer in Bulletin scienti-fique puhl. par V Acad. Imp. des Sciences de St. Petersburg., t. ii. No. 9, 10,11 (1837). Before this there does not appear to have been in St. Petersburgany knowledge of Pachtussovs voyages, the most remarkable which thehistory of Russian Polar Sea exploration has to show. ] PACHTUSSOVS VOYAGES. 213 and Klokoy, chief of the civil service, at Archangel, sent out in1832 an expedition with very comprehensive aims from that town,for the purpose of re-establishing the sea-route to the Yenisej,of surveying the east coast of Novaya Zemlya, and of walrus-hunting there. Three vessels were employed, viz., a carbasse manned by ten men, including the Commander-lieutenant inthe corps of mates Pachtussov, who in previous voyages withIvanov had become well acquainted with land and people along. FBIEDRICH BENJAMIN VON LUTKE. Born in 1797 in St. Petersburg. the coasts of the Polar Sea; the schooner Yenisej underLieutenat Krotov with ten men ; and a hunting lodja com-manded by the hunting mate Gwosdarev. Pachtussov was toundertake the east coast of Novaya Zemlya, Krotov to sail * The carbasse was named, like the vessels of Lasarev and Liitke, theNovaya Zemlya. It was forty-two feet long, fourteen feet beam, and sixfeet deep, decked fore and aft, and with the open space between protectedby canvas from breakers. 214 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. hrough Matotschkin Sound and across the Kara Sea to theYenisej, and Gwosdarev to carry on hunting in order to coverpart of the costs of the expedition. Pachtussov could not penetrate into the Kara Sea, but winteredthe first time on South Novaya Zemlya in 70° 36 and 5932 (Greenwich), in an old hou
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