The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . race, larger and stronger than the Lapp orSamoyed dogs proper. Immediately after the Vega came to anchor, T went on landon this occasion also ; in the first place with a view to take somesolar altitudes, in order to ascertain the chronometers rate ofgoing; for during the voyage of 1875 I had had an opportunityof determining the position of this place as accurately as is 11.] TRAFFIC WITH THE SAMOYEDS. 07 possible with the common reflecting circle and chronometer,
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . race, larger and stronger than the Lapp orSamoyed dogs proper. Immediately after the Vega came to anchor, T went on landon this occasion also ; in the first place with a view to take somesolar altitudes, in order to ascertain the chronometers rate ofgoing; for during the voyage of 1875 I had had an opportunityof determining the position of this place as accurately as is 11.] TRAFFIC WITH THE SAMOYEDS. 07 possible with the common reflecting circle and chronometer,with the following result:— rri ni 1 X r^i I i Latitude 69° 38 50. ihe Lluirch at Lliabarova < ^ •*. j cno in An tt f n • i I Longitude 60 19 49 E. from Greenwich. When the observations were finished I hastened to renew myacquaintance with my old friends on the spot. I also endea-voured to purchase from the Samoyeds dresses and householdarticles ; but as I had not then with rae goods for barter, andready money appeared to be of small account with them, priceswere very higli; for instance, for a ladys beautiful pesk,. LAPP AKJA. .•Vftcr original in the Northern Museum, Stockholm. twenty roubles ; for a cap with brass ornaments, ten roubles ;for a pair of boots of reindeer skin, two roubles ; for copperornaments for hoods, two roubles each; and so on. As I knew that the Samoyeds during their wanderingsalways carry idols with them, I asked them whether they couldnot sell me some. All at first answered in the negative. Itwas evident that they were hindered from complying with myrequests partly by superstition, partly by being a little ashamed,before the West European, of the nature of their gods. Themetallic lustre of some rouble pieces which I had procured inStockholm, however, at last induced an old woman to set aside F 2 68 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [CUAP. all fears. She went to one of the loaded sledges, which appearedto be used as magazines, and searched for a long t
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