. The life and voyages of Joseph Wiggins; modern discoverer of the Kara Sea route to Siberia, based on his journals & letters . e winter, or engaged as the hewers ofwood and drawers of water. The curious tents,covered in winter with reindeer skin, or in summerwith birch bark, are picturesque in the extreme,though dark and dismal in their interiors. MrSewell made excellent use of his camera, as someof the illustrations in this book testify. On September 25 a small steamer arrivedfrom Vardoe, bringing the news that the Seagullhad reached that port, all well. Captain Wigginsnow fully realised tha
. The life and voyages of Joseph Wiggins; modern discoverer of the Kara Sea route to Siberia, based on his journals & letters . e winter, or engaged as the hewers ofwood and drawers of water. The curious tents,covered in winter with reindeer skin, or in summerwith birch bark, are picturesque in the extreme,though dark and dismal in their interiors. MrSewell made excellent use of his camera, as someof the illustrations in this book testify. On September 25 a small steamer arrivedfrom Vardoe, bringing the news that the Seagullhad reached that port, all well. Captain Wigginsnow fully realised that, owing to the failure ofboth the Phoenix and the Seagull, he must returnto England with his cargo. But the Kara Seawas before him; he had only to slip through theYugor Straits to get there. The temptation todemonstrate yet once more that the Sea wasnavigable was too strong to resist; so he decidedto get under weigh and go forward. But before proceeding he had to lose one of hispassengers. Mr Victor Morier, disappointed thatthe voyage was broken, determined to see some-thing of Siberia before returning to St. SAMOYEnE WOMAN. [;.2\O. xir] TANTALISING NEWS 241 He induced three Samoyede families, encampednear the village of Khabarova, and about to startfor their winter quarters on the Petchora, to changetheir destination and go with him on sledges asfar as Obdorsk, on the Obi, a distance of about600 miles. He also persuaded Mr Crowther, themate of the Labrador, and one of the crew, apardoned exile, to accompany him. The journey which he proposed had neverbeen accomplished by any Western large party set off, with all their belongings,including three hundred head of reindeer, skirtedthe northernmost spur of the Urals, crossed theYalmal isthmus, and reached Obdorsk in a short rest, Mr Morier resumed his sledgejourney, travelling along the valley of the Obias far as Tiumen, where he took train forSt. Petersburg. A full account of thi
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