The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ^^lAlPfOirir INTRODUCTION. 3 inconsiderable expenditure which the new voyage of explorationwould render necessary. This is the sixth expedition to thehigh north, the expenses of which have been defrayed toa greater or less extent by Dr. O. Dickson.^ He becamethe banker of the Vega Expedition, inasmuch as to a con-siderable extent he advanced the necessary funds, but afterour return the expenses were equally divided between HisMajesty the King of Sweden and Nor
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ^^lAlPfOirir INTRODUCTION. 3 inconsiderable expenditure which the new voyage of explorationwould render necessary. This is the sixth expedition to thehigh north, the expenses of which have been defrayed toa greater or less extent by Dr. O. Dickson.^ He becamethe banker of the Vega Expedition, inasmuch as to a con-siderable extent he advanced the necessary funds, but afterour return the expenses were equally divided between HisMajesty the King of Sweden and Norway, Dr. Dickson, andMr. Sibiriakoif. I very soon had the satisfaction of appointing, as superin-tendents of the botanical and zoological work of the expeditionin this new Polar voyage, my old and tried friends from previousexpeditions, Docents Dr. Kjellman and Dr. Stuxberg, observersso well known in Arctic literature. At a later period, anothermember of the expedition that wintered on Spitzbergen in1872-73, Lieutenant (now Captain in the Swedish Navy) , offered to accompany the new expedition as com-mander of the ve
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