CHAPTER XX.
The Voyage Home—Christmas, 1879—Aden—Suez—Cairo—Excursion to the Pyramids and the Mokattam Mountains—Petrified Tree-stems—The Suez Canal—Landing on Sicily by night—Naples—Rome—The Members of the Expedition separate—Lisbon—England—Paris—Copenhagen—Festive Entry into Stockholm—Fêtes there—Conclusion
During our stay in Japan and our voyage thence to Ceylon I had endeavoured at least in some degree to preserve the character of the voyage of the Vega as a scientific expedition, an attempt which, considering the short time the Vega remained at each place, could not yield any very important results, and which besides was rendered difficult, though in a way that was agreeable and flattering to us, by I may almost say the tempestuous hospitality with which the Vega men were everywhere received during their visits to the ports of Japan and East Asia. It was besides difficult to find any new untouched field of research in regions which were the seat of culture and civilisation long before the time when the forest began to be cut down and seed to be sown in the Scandinavian North, and which for centuries have formed the goal of exploratory expeditions from all the countries of Europe. I hope however that the Vega will leave lasting memorials even of this part of her voyage through the contributions of Stuxberg, Nordquist, Kjellman, and Almquist to the evertebrate fauna and the sea-weed and lichen flora of East Asia, and by my collections of Japanese books, of fossil plants from Mogi and Labuan, &c.
With the new overpowering impression which nature and people exerted on those of us, who now for the first time visited Japan, China, India, Borneo, and Ceylon, it was however specially difficult, during a stay of a few days at each place, to preserve this side of the Vega expedition. I therefore determined after leaving Ceylon to let it drop completely, that is, from that point merely to travel home. Regarding this part of the voyage of the Vega I would thus have very little to say, were it not that an obligation of gratitude compels me to express in a few words the thanks of the Vega men for all the honours bestowed upon them, and all the goodwill they enjoyed during the last part of the voyage. For many of my readers this sketch may perhaps be of interest as reminding them of some happy days which they themselves have lived through, and it may even happen that it will not be unwelcome to the friends of geography in a future time to read this description of the way in which the first circumnavigators of Asia and Europe were fêted in the ports and capitals of the civilised countries. In this sketch however I am compelled to be as brief as possible, and I must therefore sue for pardon if every instance of hospitality shown us cannot be mentioned.
We started from Point de Galle on the 22nd December, and arrived at Aden on the 7th January. The passage was tedious in consequence of light winds or calms. Christmas Eve we did not celebrate on this occasion, tired as we were of entertainments, in such a festive way as at Pitlekaj, but only with a few Christmas-boxes and some extra treating. On New Year's Eve, on the other hand, the officers in the gunroom were surprised by a deputation from the forecastle clad in pesks as Chukches, who came, in good Swedish, mixed with a few words of the Pitlekaj lingua franca not yet forgotten, to bring us a salutation from our friends among the ice of the north, thanks for the past and good wishes for the coming year, mixed with Chukch complaints of the great heat hereaway in the neighbourhood of the equator, which for fur-clad men was said to be altogether unendurable.
We remained at Aden only a couple of days, received in a friendly manner by the then acting Swedish-Norwegian consul, who took us round to the most remarkable points of the desolate environs of this important haven, among others to the immense, but then and generally empty water reservoirs which the English have made in the neighbourhood of the town. No place in the high north, not the granite cliffs of the Seven Islands, or the pebble rocks of Low Island on Spitzbergen, not the mountain sides on the east coast of Novaya Zemlya, or the figure-marked ground at Cape Chelyuskin is so bare of vegetation as the environs of Aden and the parts of the east coast of the Red Sea which we saw. Nor can there be any comparison in respect of the abundance of animal life between the equatorial countries and the Polar regions we have named. On the whole animal life in the coast lands of the highest north, where the mountains are high and surrounded by deep water, appears to be richer in individuals than in the south, and this depends not only on the populousness of the fowl-colonies and the number of large animals of the chase that we find there, but also on the abundance of evertebrates in the sea. At least the dredgings made from the Vega during the voyage between Japan and Ceylon gave an exceedingly scanty yield in comparison with our dredgings north of Cape Chelyuskin.
Aden is now an important port of call for the vessels which pass through the Suez Canal from European waters to the Indian Ocean, and also one of the chief places for the export of the productions of Yemen or Arabia Felix. In the latter respect the harbour was of importance as far back as about four hundred years ago, when the Italian, LUDOVICO DE VARTHEMA, was for a considerable time kept a prisoner by the Arab tribes at the place. In the harbour of Aden the Vega was saluted by the firing of twenty-one guns and the hoisting of the Swedish flag at the maintop of an Italian war vessel, the despatch steamer Esploratore under the command of Captain AMEZAGA. The Esploratore took part in an expedition consisting of three war vessels, charged with founding an Italian colony at Assab Bay, which cuts into the east coast of Africa, north of Bab-el-Mandeb, on a tract of land purchased for the purpose by Rubbattino, an Italian commercial company. On board was Professor SAPETTO, an elderly man, who had concluded the bargain and had lived at the place for forty years. It was settled that he should be the administrator of the new colony. On board the Esploratore were also the savants BECCARI and the Marquis DORIA, famous for their extensive travels in the tropics and their valuable scientific labours. The officers of the Italian vessel invited us to a dinner which was one of the pleasantest and gayest of the many entertainments we were present at during our homeward journey. When at the close of it we parted from our hosts they lighted up the way by which we rowed forward over the tranquil waves of the Bay of Aden with blue lights, and the desert mountain sides of the Arabian coast resounded with the hurrahs which were exchanged in the clear, calm night between the representatives of the south and north of Europe.
The Vega left Aden, or more correctly its port-town, Steamer Point, on the 9th January, and sailed the following day through Bab-el-Mandeb into the Red Sea. The passage of this sea, which is narrow, but 2,200 kilometres long, was tedious, especially in its northern part, where a strong head wind blew. This caused so great a lowering of the temperature that a film of ice was formed on the fresh-water pools in Cairo, and that we, Polar travellers as we were, had again to put on winter clothes in Egypt itself.
The Vega anchored on the 27th January at the now inconsiderable port, Suez, situated at the southern entrance to the Suez Canal. Most of the scientific men and officers of the Vega expedition made an excursion thence to Cairo and the Pyramids, and were everywhere received in a very kind way. Among other things the Egyptian Geographical Society sent a deputation to welcome us under the leadership of the President of the Society, the American, STONE PACHA. He had in his youth visited Sweden, and appeared to have a very pleasant recollection of it. The Geographical Society gave a stately banquet in honour of the Vega expedition. An excursion was made to the Great Pyramids, and, as far as the short time permitted, to other remarkable places in and around the heap of ruins of all kinds and from all periods, which forms the capital of the Egypt of to-day. During our visit to the Pyramids the Swedish-Norwegian consul-general, BÖDTKER, gave us a dinner in the European hotel there, and the same evening a ball was given us by the Italian consul-general, DE MARTINO. A day was besides devoted by some of us, in company with M. GUISEPPE HAIMANN, to a short excursion to the Mokattam Mountains, famous for the silicified tree-stems found there. I hoped along with the petrified wood to find some strata of clay-slate or schist with leaf-impressions. I was however unsuccessful in this, but I loaded heavily a carriage drawn by a pair of horses with large and small tree-stems converted into hard flint. These he spread about in the desert in incredible masses, partly broken up into small pieces, partly as long fallen stems, without root or branches, but in a wonderfully good state of preservation. Probably they had originally lain embedded in a layer of sand above the present surface of the desert. This layer has afterwards been carried away by storms, leaving the heavy masses of stone as a peculiar stratum upon the desert sand, which is not covered by any grassy sward. No root-stumps were found, and it thus appeared as if the stems had been carried by currents of water to the place where they were imbedded in the sandy layers and silicified. In their exterior all these petrifactions resemble each other, and by the microscopical examination which has hitherto been made naturalists have only succeeded in distinguishing two species belonging to the family Nicolia, and a palm, a pine, and a leguminous plant, all now extinct. It is possible that among the abundant materials I brought home with me some other types may be discovered by polishing and microscopical examination. Such at least was my expectation in bringing home this large quantity of stones, the transport of which to the Vega was attended with a heavy expenditure.
From Cairo we returned, on the 2nd February, to Suez, and the following day the Vega weighed anchor to steam through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean. This gigantic work, created by the genius and perseverance of LESSEPS, which is unsurpassed by the many marvels of construction in the land of the Pharaohs, has not a very striking appearance, for the famous canal runs, like a small river with low banks, through the monotonously yellow plain of the desert. There are no sluices. No bold rock-blastings stand as monuments of difficulties overcome. But proud must every child of our century be when he gazes on this proof that private enterprise can in our day accomplish what world-empires in former times were unable to carry into execution. We touched at Port Said for a few hours on the 5th February, after which we continued our voyage to Naples, the first European port we were to visit.
At Aden and in Egypt I had received several letters and telegrams informing me that great preparations were being made at Naples for our reception, and that repeated inquiries had been addressed to the Swedish consul-general regarding the day of our arrival, questions which naturally it was not so easy to answer, as our vessel, with its weak steam-power, was very dependent on wind and weather. It was hoped that the Vega might be signalled from the Straits of Messina, but we did not come to the entrance to the Straits until after sunset. I therefore ordered the Vega to lie to there for some hours, while Lieut. Bove and I rowed ashore to send off telegrams announcing our arrival in Europe to Sweden, Naples, Rome, and other places. The shore, however, was farther off than we had calculated, and it was quite dark before it was reached. It was not without difficulty that in these circumstances we could get to land through the breakers in the open road quite unknown to us, and then, in coal-black darkness, find our way through thickets of prickly bushes to the railway which here runs along the coast. We had then to go along the railway for a considerable distance before we reached a station from which our telegrams could be despatched. Scarcely had we entered the station when we were surrounded by suspicious railway and coast-guard men, and we considered ourselves fortunate that they had not observed us on the way thither, for they would certainly have taken us for smugglers, whom the coast-guard have the right to salute with sharp shot. Even now we were overwhelmed with questions in a loud and commanding tone, but when they saw to what high personages our telegrams were addressed, and were informed by their countryman Bove, who wore his uniform, to what vessel we belonged, they became very obliging. One of them accompanied us back to our boat, after providing us with excellent torches which spread abundant light around our footsteps. They were much needed, for we were now compelled to share the astonishment of our guide that in the darkness we had succeeded in making our way over the rugged hills covered with cactus plants and bushy thickets between the railway and the coast, and along a railway viaduct which we had passed on our way to the station without having any idea of it. It was the last adventure of the voyage of the Vega, and my first landing on the glorious soil of Italy.
On the 14th February, at 1 P.M., the Vega arrived at Naples. At Capri a flag-ornamented steamer from Sorrento met us; somewhat later, another from Naples, both of which accompanied us to the harbour. Here the Swedish expedition was saluted by an American war-vessel, the Wyoming, with twenty-one guns. The harbour swarmed with boats adorned with flags. Scarcely had the Vega anchored—or more correctly been moored to a buoy—when the envoy LINDSTRAND, the Swedish-Norwegian consul CLAUSEN, Prince TEANO, president of the Geographical Society, Commander MARTIN FRANKLIN, Commendatore NEGRI, and others came on board. The last-named, who nearly two years before had made a special journey to Sweden to be present at the departure of the Vega, now came from Turin commissioned by the Italian government, and deputed by the municipalities of Florence and Venice, the Turin Academy of Sciences, and several Italian and foreign geographical societies, to welcome the Expedition, which had now brought its labours to a happy issue.
After Herr Lindstrand, as King Oscar's representative, had welcomed the Expedition to Europe, and publicly conferred Swedish decorations on Palander and me, and two adjutants of the Italian Ministry of Marine had likewise distributed Italian orders to some of the Vega men, some short speeches were exchanged, on which the members of the Expedition, accompanied by the persons enumerated above, landed in the Admiral's steam-launch under a salute of twenty-one guns from the Italian guard-ship. On the landing-quay, where a large crowd of the inhabitants of the city was assembled, the Swedish seafarers were received by the Syndic of Naples, Count GIUSSO, accompanied by a deputation from the municipality, &c. Here we were taken, between rows of enthusiastic students, in the gala carriages of the municipality, to the Hotel Royal des Étrangeres, where a handsome suite of apartments, along with equipages and numerous attendants, was placed at our disposal. We were there received by the committee in charge of the festivities, Prince BELMONTE and Cavalier RICCIO, who afterwards, during our stay in the city, in the kindest way arranged everything to make our stay there festive and agreeable.
On Sunday the 15th several deputations were received, among them one from the University. A beautifully-bound address was presented by "Ateneo Benjammo Franklin," and a number of official visits were made and received. We dined with the Swedish-Norwegian consul, Clausen. On Monday the 16th an address was presented from "Scuola d'Applicazione per gl'Ingenieri," and from "Neapolitana Archæologiæ, Litterarum et Artium Academia," a song of welcome in Latin, written by Professor ANTONIO MIRABELLI. Then followed a grand dinner given by the municipality of the city in a hall of the hotel, which was now inaugurated and was named the Vega Hall, and was on this occasion ornamented with the royal cipher, the Swedish and Italian flags, &c. In the evening there was a gala representation at San Carlo, where the members of the Expedition scattered among the different boxes were saluted with repeated loud cries of "Bravo!"—On Tuesday the 17th the Committee had arranged an excursion to Lake Averno, the Temple of Serapis, and other places famous in a geological and historical respect, situated to the north-west of Naples. Prince URUSOV entertained some of the members of the Expedition to dinner. There was an afternoon musical entertainment at the "Società Filarmonica," where there was a numerous attendance of persons moving in the first circles in the city.—Wednesday the 18th, excursion along with the Committee to Pompeii, where the Swedish guests were received by the famous superintendent of the excavations, Director RUGGIERI. Breakfast was eaten with merry jests and gay speeches in a splendid Roman bath, still in good preservation, excavations were undertaken, &c. In the afternoon there was a grand dinner, followed by a reception by the admiral in command, and a festive representation at the Bellini Theatre.—Thursday the 19th, Dr. FRANZ KÜHN, arrived from Vienna, deputed by the Geographical Society there to welcome us. Excursion in company with Professor PALMIERI and the Committee to Vesuvius, which at the time of our visit was emitting thick columns of smoke, was pouring out a stream of lava, and casting out masses of glowing stone. We ascended the border of the crater, not without inconvenience from the heat of the half-solidified lava streams over which we walked, from the gases escaping from the crater, and from the red-hot stones flung out of it. The new railway, not then ready, was inspected, and the observatory visited. We dined with the Committee at the hotel—Friday the 20th, journey to Rome, where the members of the Expedition arrived at 2 P.M., and were, in the same way as at Naples, received in a festive manner by the Syndic of the city, Prince RUSPOLI, president and director of the Geographical Society, by members of the University, the Scandinavian Union, &c. Carriages met the Swedish guests, in which they were taken past the Swedish-Norwegian minister's hotel, decked with innumerable flags, to Albergo di Roma in the Corso, where a splendid suite of apartments, along with equipages, was placed at the disposal of the Expedition. In the evening we dined with the Swedish minister, and were afterwards received by Prince PALLAVICINI at his magnificent palace—Saturday the 21st, visit to the Chamber of Deputies, private excursions, dinner given by the Duke NICOLAS of Leuchtenberg, to Nordenskiöld and Nordquist.—Sunday the 22nd, public meeting of the Geographical Society, at which its grand gold medal was presented to Nordenskiöld. In the evening a grand dinner, given by the Geographical Society, in the Continental Hotel. Among the toasts which were drunk may be mentioned one to the King of Sweden and Norway, proposed in a very warm and eloquent speech by the Premier, CAIROLI; to Nordenskiöld, by Prince Teano; to Palander, by the Minister of Marine, Admiral ACTON; to the other members of the Expedition, to its munificent patrons, Oscar Dickson and Alexander Sibiriakoff, to Bove, the Italian officer, who took part in it, &c.—Monday the 23rd. Audience of the King. In the evening a grand reception at the Palazzo Teano, where almost all that was distinguished and splendid of Roman society appeared to be assembled.—Tuesday the 24th. Dined at the Quirinal with King Humbert. There were present, besides the King and his suite, the Swedish minister, the members of the Vega expedition, Prince Teano, President of the Geographical Society; Commendatore Negri; Cairoli, Premier; Acton, Minister of Marine; MALVANO, Secretary of the Cabinet; Major BARATIERI, and the Italian naval officer, EUGENIO PARENT, a member of the Swedish Polar expedition of 1872-3, and others. In the evening, reception by the English minister, Sir A. B. PAGET, and a beautifully arranged fête at the Scandinavian Union, at which a number of enthusiastic speeches were made, and flowers and printed verses were distributed. —Wednesday the 25th. Farewell visits. Some of the members of the Expedition travelled north by rail. Captain Palander made an excursion to Spezzia to take part in a cruise on the large ironclad Duilio. The others remained some days longer in Rome in order to see its lions, undisturbed by official fêtes.
While the Vega lay in the harbour of Naples she was literally exposed to storming by visitors. The crew were on several occasions invited to the theatres there by the managers. Excursions to Pompeii had besides been arranged for them by the consul for the united kingdoms, Clausen, who spared no pains to make the stay of the expedition at Naples honouring to the mother-country and as pleasant as possible to the guests, as well as in arranging the more formal details of the visit. We had besides the joy of meeting in Italy our comrade from the severe wintering of 1872-3, Eugenio Parent, who soon after had the misfortune to be in the tower of the ironclad Duilio, when the large Armstrong cannon placed there burst, and the wonderful good fortune to escape with life and without being seriously hurt from this dreadful accident. The only mishap on board the Vega during the latter part of her long voyage home occurred besides in the harbour of Naples, one of the sailors who was keeping back an enthusiastic crowd of people who stormed the Vega, being thrown down from the bulwarks with the result that he broke an arm.[392]
On the 29th February the Vega left the harbour of Naples, but no longer with her staff complete. Doctors Kjellman, Almquist, and Stuxberg, and Lieut. Nordquist had preferred the land route from Italy to Stockholm to the long détour by sea, and Lieut. Bove was obliged, by family circumstances, to leave the Vega at Naples. We, however, all met again at Stockholm. At our departure from Naples the gunroom personnel thus consisted only of me, Captain Palander, and Lieuts. Brusewitz and Hovgaard.
Through M. A. RABAUT, President of the young, but already so well known Geographical Society of Marseilles, I had received repeated invitations to visit along with my companions the birthplace of Pytheas, the first Polar explorer and the discoverer of the Scandinavian Peninsula. With great reluctance I was compelled to decline this invitation. We had to hasten home, and I wished to save some days for a visit to the fatherland of HENRY the Navigator and VASCO DA GAMA.
We sailed through the Straits of Gibraltar on the 9th March, and anchored in the harbour of Lisbon on the 11th March at 2 P.M. The following day we made an excursion to the beautiful palace of Cintra, situated about five Portuguese miles from the capital. On Saturday we were received in audience by the King, Dom Luiz, of Portugal, who, a seaman himself, appeared to take a great interest in the voyage of the Vega. Later in the day the Swedish minister in Lisbon gave a dinner, to which were invited the President of the Portuguese Council, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the members of the Diplomatic Corps, and others, ending in the evening with a grand reception. On Monday the 15th we were present by special invitation at a meeting of the Geographical Society, at which the newly-returned African travellers, BRITO-CAPELLO and IVEN, gave addresses. Here I had besides the great pleasure of meeting the famous African traveller, Major SERPA PINTO. The King at the same time honoured us with decorations, and at its meeting on the 10th March the Portuguese Chamber of Deputies resolved, on the motion of the Deputies ENNES and ALFREDO, to express its welcome and good wishes in a congratulatory address to the Vega men.
We weighed anchor again on the 15th March. We were favoured at first with a fresh breeze and made rapid progress, but at the entrance to the Channel we met with a steady head-wind, so that it was not until the evening of the 25th March, considerably later than we had counted on, that we could anchor in the harbour of Falmouth, not, as was first intended, in that of Portsmouth. We thus missed some preparations which had been made at the latter place to welcome us to the land which stands first in the line of those that have sent out explorers to the Polar Seas. We besides missed a banquet which the Royal Geographical Society had arranged in honour of the Vega expedition, at which the Prince of Wales was to have presided, and which now, in the midst of the Easter holidays and a keenly-contested parliamentary election, could not be held.[393] Our stay in England, at all events, was exceedingly
pleasant. Palander and I travelled on the night before Good Friday to London, where we were received at the railway station by the Swedish minister, Count PIPER, and a large number of our countrymen living in London. Count Piper carried me to my future host, the distinguished Secretary of the Geographical Society and famous Arctician and geographical writer, CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, who did everything to make my stay in London as pleasant and instructive as possible. Saturday was spent in paying visits. On Easter Sunday Consul-General RICHTER gave a lunch in the Continental Hotel, to which a considerable number of Scandinavians and Englishmen were invited. The same evening we dined with the famous Arctic traveller, Sir ALLEN YOUNG. On Monday we were invited by the Earl of NORTHBROOK, President of the Geographical Society,[394] to his country seat, Stratton, near Winchester. Here we saw the way—an exceedingly quiet one—in which an English parliamentary election goes on. The same day we paid a visit to Mr. SPOTTISWOODE, the President of the Royal Society, at his magnificent country seat, in the neighbourhood of London. Here I saw several instructive experiments with very large machines for the production of light by electric discharges in highly rarified air. Wednesday the 31st, grand dinner at the Swedish minister's, and in the evening of the same day a Scandinavian fête in the Freemasons' Hall, at which there were great rejoicings according to old northern usages.
We started for Paris on the night before the 1st April. We went by Boulogne-sur-Mer, whose Chamber of Commerce had invited us to a fête to celebrate the first landing of the Vega men on the soil of France after the North-east Passage was achieved. Several of the authorities of the town and Dr. HAMY, a delegate from the Geographical Society of Paris met us in the waiting-room at the station. Here a breakfast had been arranged, in the course of which we were presented to a number of eminent persons of the place, with whom we afterwards passed the greater part of the day in the most agreeable way. After making several excursions in the neighbourhood of the town and paying the necessary official visits, we partook of a festive dinner arranged by the municipality. From Boulogne we travelled by night to Paris, arriving there on the 2nd April at 7 A. M.
Notwithstanding the early morning hour we were received here at the station in a festive way by the Swedish-Norwegian minister and the personnel of the Legation, a deputation from the Geographical Society of Paris, and a considerable number of the members of the Scandinavian colony in the capital of France. The famous Madagascar traveller, GRANDIDIER, President of the Geographical Society's Central Committee, welcomed us, with lively expressions of assent from the surrounding crowd. We were invited during our stay in the city to live with our countryman, A. NOBEL, in a very comfortable villa belonging to him, Rue Malakoff, No. 53, and I cannot sufficiently commend the liberal way in which he here discharged the duties of a host and assisted us during our stay in Paris, which, though very agreeable and honouring to us, demanded an extraordinary amount of exertion.
Our reception in Paris was magnificent, and it appeared as if the metropolis of the world wished to show by the way in which she honoured a feat of navigation that it is not without reason that she bears on her shield a vessel surrounded by swelling billows. It is a pleasant duty for me here to offer my thanks for all the goodwill we, during those memorable days, enjoyed on the part of the President of the Republic, of Admiral LA RONCIÈRE LE NOURY, President of the Geographical Society, his colleague, M. HECHT, M. MAUNOIR, the Secretary of the Society, M. QUATREFAGE, and M. DAUBRÉE, members of the Institute, not to forget many other Frenchmen and Scandinavians. Among the fêtes of Paris I must confine myself to an enumeration of the principal ones.
Friday, the 2nd April. Public séance de réception by the Geographical Society in the Cirque des Champs Elysée in the presence of a very large and select audience. Admiral La Roncière delivered the speech on this occasion, which I replied to by giving a pretty full account of the Swedish Arctic expeditions, on which the President handed me the large gold medal of the Society "as a proof of the interest which the public and the geographers of France take in the voyage of the Vega." Dined the same day with the Swedish-Norwegian minister, SIBBERN.—Saturday the 3rd. Invitation to a festive meeting of delegates from twenty-eight learned societies in France in the amphitheatre of the Sorbonne.[395] We were greeted by the Minister of Education in a masterly and eloquent speech, after which he conferred upon us, on the part of the Republic, Commander's and Officer's Insignia of the French Legion of Honour. "A reward," as the Minister of the Republic expressed himself, "for the blood of the brave and the sleepless nights of the learned." After that an official dinner and reception by M. Jules Ferry.—On Sunday the 4th, an address was presented from the Scandinavian Union, under the presidency of Herr Fortmeijer. In the evening a brilliant entertainment on a large scale given by the Scandinavian Union in the Hotel Continental. Among those present may be mentioned Prince OSCAR of Sweden, the President of the Fête Committee, Herr JENSEN, Fru KRISTINA NILSON-ROUZEAUD the Danish minister, the Swedish embassy, members of the Russian embassy, a large number of Scandinavian artists, many of the principal representatives of the French and foreign press, and lastly, what ought perhaps to have been mentioned first, a flower-garden of ladies, of which every dweller in the north might feel proud.—Monday the 5th. Meeting of the Institute in its well-known hall, with speeches of welcome. Hence we were conducted to a grand festive reception, arranged beforehand to the minutest details by the Municipal Council, in "la Salle des États," situated in that part of the Tuileries where the Geographical Congress was held in 1878. The hall and the ascent to it were richly ornamented with French tri-colours and Swedish flags, beautiful Gobelins, and living plants. A number of speeches were made, after which the President of the Municipal Council, on the part of the City of Paris, presented to me a large, artistically executed medal as a memorial of the voyage of the Vega[396]. In the evening a grand dinner was given by the Société de Géographie, with several eloquent speeches for King Oscar (General Pittie), for President Grévy, for the prosperity of France (Prince Oscar), for the Vega expedition (M. Quatrefage), and so on.—Tuesday the 6th. Dinner given by the President of the Republic, M. Grévy, to Prince Oscar and the Vega men then in Paris.—Wednesday the 7th. Dinner given to a numerous and select company of French savants by the then President of the Geographical Society and of the Institute, M. A. Daubrée.—Thursday the 8th. Dinner to a small circle at Victor Hugo's house, where the elderly poet and youthful-minded enthusiast in very warm, and I need not say eloquent, words congratulated me on the accomplishment of my task. Reception there the same evening.
Here ended our visit to the capital of France. Thoroughly exhausted, but bringing with us memories which shall never pass away, we travelled the following day to Vlissingen, whither the Vega had gone from Falmouth, under the command of Brusewitz. We had been compelled to decline warm and hearty invitations to Holland and Belgium from want of time and strength to take part in any more festivities. The anchor was weighed immediately after we came on board, and the course shaped for Copenhagen. At noon on the 15th we passed Helsingborg, which was richly ornamented with flags for the occasion. Already at Kullaberg we had been met by the steamer H. P. Prior, with Lund students on board, and eight other steamers with deputations of welcome and enthusiasts for the voyage of the Vega, from Copenhagen, Malmö, Helsingborg, and Elsinore. The number of passengers was stated to be 1,500, including a number of ladies. Songs were sung, speeches made, fireworks let off, &c. At night we lay at anchor in the outer road of Copenhagen, so that it was not until the following forenoon that we steamed into the harbour, saluting the fort with nine shots of our little cannon, and saluted in turn by as many. While the Vega was sailing into the harbour, and after she had anchored, there came on board the Swedish Minister, Baron BECK-FRIIS, the Swedish consul-general EVERLÖF, the representatives of the University, of the merchants, and of the Geographical Society under the presidency of the former President of the Council, Count HOLSTEIN-HOLSTEINBORG, to bring us a welcome from the corporations they represented, and accompany us to the Toldbod, where we were received by the President-in-chief, the Presidents of the Communal Authority, and the Bourse, and the Swedish Unions of Copenhagen. We then drove through the festively ornamented city, saluted by resounding hurrahs, from a countless throng of human beings, to the Hôtel d'Angleterre, where apartments had been prepared for us. On the 17th a fête was given by the Geographical Society in the Casino Hall, which was attended by the King, the Crown Prince, and Prince John of Glücksborg, and nearly all the distinguished men of Copenhagen in the fields of science, business, and politics. The speech of the fête was delivered by Professor ERSLEV. Thereafter a gay and lively banquet was given, at which the Crown Prince of Denmark presided.
The 18th April. Grand entertainment given by the King.—The 19th April. Magnificent banquet given by the Society of Merchants to the members of the Vega expedition at the Bourse, the rooms being richly ornamented with flowers and flags, and with busts and paintings executed for the occasion by eminent artists. Councillor of state MELCHIOR presided, and amongst those present, were observed the Crown Prince, the ministers, the speakers and vice-speakers of the folke- and lands-ting, and a number of the principal scientific and military men and officials. Speeches were delivered by the Crown Prince, State-councillor TEITGEN, Manager of the Great Northern Telegraph Company, Admiral BILLE, Professor MADVIG, State-councillor Melchior, &c. At another place, an entertainment was given at the same time to the crew. In the evening, fête of the Students' Union, the Swedish National Union, and the Norwegian Union.
I was obliged to decline an invitation to Lund, because his Majesty, King Oscar, had expressed the wish that we should first set foot on Swedish ground at the Palace of Stockholm.
It was settled that our entry into Stockholm should take place in the evening of the 24th April, but we started from Copenhagen as early as the night before the 20th in order to be sure that we would not, in consequence of head winds or other unforeseen hindrances, arrive too late for the festivities in the capital of Sweden. In consequence of this precaution we arrived at the archipelago of Stockholm as early as the 23rd, so that we were compelled during the night between the 23rd and 24th to lie still at Dalarö. Here we were met by Commander LAGERCRANTZ, who by the King's orders brought our families on the steamer Sköldmön to meet us.
On the 24th at 8 A.M. the Vega again weighed anchor in order to steam on slowly, past Vaxholm into Stockholm. We met innumerable flag-decked steamers by the way, fully laden with friends, known and unknown, who with shouts of rejoicing welcomed the Vega men home. The nearer we came to Stockholm, the greater became the number of steamers, that, arranged in a double line and headed by the Vega, slowly approached the harbour. Lanterns in variegated colours were lighted on the vessels, fireworks were let off, and the roar of cannon mingled with the loud hurrahs of thousands of spectators. After being greeted at Kastelholmen with one salute more the Vega anchored in the stream in Stockholm at 10 P.M.
The queen of the Mälar had clothed herself for the occasion in a festive dress of incomparable splendour. The city was illuminated, the buildings round the harbour being in the first rank. Specially had the King done everything to make the reception of the Vega expedition, which he had so warmly cherished from the first moment, as magnificent as possible. The whole of the Royal Palace was radiant with a sea of lights and flames, and was ornamented with symbols and ciphers in which the name of the youngest sailor on the Vega was not omitted.
An estrade had been erected from Logaorden to the landing-place. Here we were received by the town councillors, whose president, the Governor, welcomed us in a short speech, we were then conducted to the Palace, where, in the presence of her Majesty the Queen of Sweden, the members of the Royal House, the highest officials of the State and Court, &c., we were in the grandest manner welcomed in the name of the fatherland by the King of Sweden, who at the same time conferred upon us further marks of his favour and goodwill[397]. It was also at the Royal Palace that the series of festivities commenced with a grand gala dinner, on the 25th of April, at which the King in a few magnanimous words praised the exploit of the Vega. Then fête followed fête for several weeks.
On the 26th the Swedish Yacht Club gave an entertainment in the Grand Hotel under the presidency of Admiral Lagercrantz. Among those who were present may be mentioned his Majesty the King, the Crown Prince, Prince Oscar, Oscar Dickson, and Baron von Otter, Minister of Marine. On the evening of the same day there was a torchlight procession by pupils of the Technical High School. On the 27th there was a gala-play, to which all the Vega men were invited. On the 28th at a festive meeting of the Academy of the Sciences, a medal struck on account of the Vega expedition was distributed, the meeting being followed by a dinner given at the Hotel Phoenix by the Academy under the presidency of the Crown Prince. On the 30th April and 5th May banquets were given by the Publicist Club, and by the Idun Society, by the Naval Officers' Society to the officers of the Vega, and by the Stockholm Workman's Union to the crew. On the 7th and 8th May there were festivities at Upsala, the principal attraction of which consisted of gay, lively, and ingenious carnival representations, in which we received jocular addresses and homage from fantastically dressed representatives of the peoples of different countries and periods.
During this time there were daily received deputations
addresses, and telegrams of welcome, among others from the riksdag of Sweden, the storting of Norway, and the principal towns of Norway and Finland, from the student corps at Upsala and Helsingborg, from the St. Petersburg Geographical Society, from women in Northern Russia (the address accompanied by a laurel wreath in silver), &c. In a word, the Stockholm fêtes formed the climax of the remarkable triumphal procession from Japan to Stockholm, which stands unique in the history of festivities. Even after the Expedition was broken up in Stockholm, and the Vega had sailed on the 9th May for Karlskrona and Gothenburg, where she was again taken over by the whaling company that previously owned her, the fêtes were repeated at these towns. They commenced anew when the Vega exhibition was opened with appropriate solemnities by His Majesty the King in one of the wings of the Royal Palace, and when some months after I visited Berlin, St. Petersburg, and my old dear fatherland, Finland.
But I may not weary my reader with more notes of festivities. It is my wish yet once again to offer my comrades' and my own thanks for all the honours conferred upon us both in foreign lands and in the Scandinavian North. And in conclusion I wish to express the hope that the way in which the accounts of the successful voyage of the Vega have been received in all countries will give encouragement to new campaigns in the service of research, until the natural history of the Siberian Polar Sea be completely investigated and till the veil that still conceals the enormous areas of land and sea at the north and south poles be completely removed, until man at last knows at least the main features of the whole of the planet which has been assigned him as a dwelling-place in the depths of the universe.
Hearty thanks last of all to my companions during the voyage of the Vega; to her distinguished commander Louis
Palander, her scientific men and officers, her petty officers and crew. Without their courage and the devotion they showed to the task that lay before us, the problem of the North-East Passage would perhaps still be waiting for its solution.
Map of the North Coast of the Old World from Norway to Behring's Straits, with the track of the Vega, constructed from old and recent sources, and from observations made during the Voyage of the Vega, by N. Selander, Captain in the General Staff
ABSTRACT OF THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA
Distance traversed
English
1878 geographical miles
Karlskrona—Copenhagen June 22—24 144
Copenhagen—Gothenburg ,, 26, 27 134
Gothenburg—Tromsoe July 4—17 1,040
Tromsoe—Chabarova ,, 21—30 930
Chabarova—Port Dickson Aug 1—6 580
Port Dickson—Cape Chelyuskin ,, 10—19 510
Cape Chelyuskin—Preobraschenie Island ,, 20—24 385
Preobraschenie Island—the Mouth of the Lena ,, 24—27 380
The Mouth of the Lena—Irkaipij Aug 27—Sept 12 1,260
Irkaipij—Pitlekaj Sept 18—28 235
The Wintering Sept 28, 1878—
July 18, 1879
1879
Pitlekaj—St. Lawrence Bay July 18—20 190
St. Lawrence Bay—Port Clarence ,, 21, 22 120
Port Clarence—Konyam Bay ,, 26—28 160
Konyam Bay—St. Lawrence Island ,, 30, 31 90
St. Lawrence Island—Behring Island Aug 2—14 900
Behring Island—Yokohama Aug. 19—Sept 2 1,715
Yokohama—Kobe Oct. 11—13 360
Kobe—Nagasaki ,, 18—21 410
Nagasaki—Hong Kong Oct. 27—Nov 2 1,080
Hong Kong—Labuan Nov. 9—17 1,040
Labuan—Singapore ,, 21—28 750
Singapore—Point de Galle Dec. 4—15 1,510
Point de Galle—Aden Dec. 22—Jan. 7, 1880 2,200
1880
Aden—Suez Jan. 9—27 1,320
Suez—Naples Feb. 3—14 1,200
Naples—Lisbon Feb. 29—March 11 1,420
Lisbon—Falmouth March 16—25 745
Falmouth—Vlissingen April 5—8 345
Vlissingen—Copenhagen ,, 10—16 632
Copenhagen—Stockholm ,, 20—24 404
——————
Total 22,189
FOOTNOTES:
[392] An accident also happened during the first half of the expedition, the steersman, in backing among drift-ice, having been thrown over the wheel and hurt very seriously.
[393] Further particulars on this point are given in the Annual Address on the Progress of Geography by the Right Hon. the Earl of Northbrook (Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 1880, p. 401).
[394] During our visit to London we had no opportunity of taking part in any of the meetings of the Society, but some time after the Society gave Palander the Founders Gold Medal (I had in 1869 obtained the same distinction) and elected me an Honorary Corresponding Member.
[395] These are enumerated in the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie, Mai, 1880, p. 463. In the same part (p. 450) there is also a report of the speeches made at the séance de réception.
[396] The medal was accompanied by an "extrait du registre de procès-verbaux du conseil municipal de la ville de Paris," a caligraphic masterpiece illuminated in various colours and gold. The Conseil municipal also ordered a detailed description of the fête to be printed, with the title Relation officielle de le réception de M. le Professeur Nordenskiöld par le conseil municipal de Paris le lundi 5 Avril 1880.
[397] Among others to all who took part in the Expedition a Vega medal, specially struck, to be worn on a blue-yellow riband on the breast. It may perhaps be of interest for numismatists to know that the medals distributed on account of the Vega expedition are to be found delineated in the eighth and ninth parts of the Swedish Family Journal for 1880. To those that are there delineated there have since been added a medal struck by the Finnish Society of Sciences, and the Anthropological-Geographical Society's medal.
INDEX.
INDEX.
(
n
after the number of a page signifies note)
A
Aagaard, Aage, i.
Acanthostephia Malmgreni
, ii.
Actinia Bay, i.
Acton, Admiral, ii.
Adam's mammoth
find
, i.
Adam's Peak, ii.
Adam's wood, ii.
Aden, ii.
Ahlquist, A. E., i.
Aino race, the, ii.
Aitanga, Chukch woman, ii.
;
portrait, ii. [8]
Akja, Lapp sledge, i.
Alasej, the river, discovered, ii.
;
mammoth find at, i. [408]
Alaska, ii.
Alaska Commercial Company, ii.
Alauda alpestris
, i.
Albertus Magnus, i.
Alecto,
see
Aleutian Islands, the, i.
, ii.
,
;
discovered, ii. [196]
Alexejev, Feodot, ii.
,
,
Alfred the Great, i.
,
,
Algæ, on the inland-ice of Greenland, i.
;
in the Kara Sea, i. [185];
at Behring Island, ii. [292]
Alibert's graphite quarry, ii.
Alkhornet, i.
Almquist, E., i.
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
; ii.
,
,
,
;
excursion to Beli Ostrov, i. [200];
report on a dead man laid out on the tundra, ii. [89];
on the colour-sense of the Chukches, ii. [135];
excursion in Ceylon, ii. [427];
portrait, ii. [435.]
Alophus (beetle), ii.
Altaic races, i.
Amber in China, ii.
America, the north-west coast of, first visited by Europeans, ii.
;
Russian voyages to, ii, [196.]
American whaler, near the
Vega's
winter-quarters, i.
;
voyages in the Siberian Polar sea, i. [27];
accounts of the state of the ice north of Behring's Straits, i. [459]
Amezaga, Captain, ii.
Ammonites with gold lustre, i.
Amossov, Feodot, ii.
,
Amoretti, Carlo, ii.
Amulets, Chukch, i.
, ii.
,
;
Eskimo, ii. [239]
Anadyr, the river, i.
; ii.
,
,
,
,
,
;
is discovered, ii. [162]
Anadyrsk, ii.
,
Anauls, ii.
Andersen, the photographer, ii.
Andrejev Land, ii.
Andrejev, Sergeant, ii.
,
Androphagi, i.
; ii.
Angara river, the, i.
Anian Sound, the, ii.
Anika, Russian peasant, ii.
Anjou, Peter Feodorovitsch, i.
;
journey, ii. [209];
portrait, ii. [207]
Anjui river, market at the, ii.
,
Ankudinov, Gerasim, i.
; ii.
,
i.
,
,
; seen during the expedition, i.
,
,
——
brachyrhynchus
, i.
——
hyperboreus
, ii.
——
leucopsis
, i.
——
pictus
, ii.
——
segetum
, i.
i.
,
Anziphorov, the Cossack, ii.
Arachnids on Novaya Zemlya, i.
Archangel, i
Arimaspi, Herodotus' statement regarding, i.
; ii.
Arnell, Dr., i.
Arvicola obscurus
, ii.
Arzina, the situation of, i.
Asamayama, ascent of, ii.
;
descent of, ii. [351]
Asia, views regarding its geography in the beginning of the 18th century, ii.
Astronomical determinations of position, the first in Siberia, ii.
Atlassov, Volodimir, ii.
,
,
Aurora, the, at the
Vega's
winter quarters, ii.
Austrian Arctic Expedition, i.
,
Avatscha Bay, ii.
,
Avril, Ph., i.
B
BACHOFF, Ivan, ii.
Baer, K. E. von, i. 158; ii.
,
;
voyage to Novaya Zemlya, i. [282]
Baikal Lake, i.
Balæna Mysticetus
, i.
,
Balænoptera Sibbaldii
, i.
Baratieri, Major, ii.
Barents, i.
,
,
,
;
voyages, i. [232];
wintering, i. [249];
death, i. [253];
discovery of relics from his wintering, i. [300]
Barjatinsky, Ivan Petrovitsch, ii.
Barnacle Goose, see
Barrington, D., i.
Barrow, J., i.
; ii.
Bartlett, W., i.
Bassendine, James, i.
Baths in Japan, ii.
Baumhauer, ii.
Bavier, Consul, ii.
,
,
Bay-ice, i.
Beaker sponges, i.
,
Bear Island, i.
,
,
,
;
discovery of, i. [247]
Bear Islands, the, ii.
,
,
,
;
the Vega arrives at, i. [421];
geological formation, i. [428]
Bear, land, ii.
;
see [Polar bear]
Beccari, ii.
Beck Friis, Baron, ii.
Beechey, F. W., i.
; ii.
Behemoth, i.
Behring, Vitus, i.
,
; ii.
,
,
;
first voyage, ii. [179];
second voyage, ii. [196];
stay on Behring Island, ii. [265];
death, ii. [265]
Behring the younger, Captain, ii.
Behring Island, ii.
;
Behring's Straits, ii.
;
its hydrography, ii. [242];
is discovered, ii. [180], [181]
i.
;
excursion to, i. [200];
description of, i. [201];
former visit to, i. [205];
mapping of, ii. [185]
Bellot, J. R., ii.
Belmonte, Prince, ii.
Bell Sound, i.
,
,
,
,
,
Beluga,
see
Beluga Bay, i.
Bennet, Stephen, i.
,
,
Bentinck, Swedish officer, ii.
Beormas, i.
,
Beresov, ii.
Berggren, Sven, i.
Beryl, ii.
Berzelius, ii.
Besimannaja Bay, i.
,
,
Busk, i.
Bille, Admiral, ii.
Billings, J., ii.
,
,
Biwa Lake, ii.
Bjelkov, hunter, ii.
,
Black-lead pencil first mentioned, ii.
Blischni Island,
see
Bludnaya river, the, ii.
Bödtker, Consul-general, ii.
Bog iron ore formations in the Kara Sea, i.
,
Bolschaja Reka, ii.
,
Bolschoj, Kamen, i.
Bolvan worship, Samoyed, i.
,
,
Bona Confidentia
(vessel), i.
;
its fate, i. [225]
Bona Esperanza
,(vessel), i.
;
its fate, i. [225]
Books, purchase of Japanese, ii.
Börgen, Dr., i.
Borgmästareport, i.
Borneo, ii.
,
;
excursion to the interior of, ii. [409]
Borrowdale, graphite deposit at, ii.
Bosman, Cornelis, i.
Boulogne-sur-mer, arrival at, ii.
Bove, G., i.
,
,
,
,
; ii.
,
,
,
,
;
excursion to Najtskaj, ii. [20];
to the interior of the Chukch Peninsula, ii. [28];
portrait, ii. [449]
Bragin, Dmitri, ii.
Brandt, J. F., ii.
,
Brandt, W., i.
Brandy, i. 440; ii.
,
Brandywine Bay, i.
Briochov Islands, i.
,
,
Brown, Richard, i.
Bruin, Cornelis de, ii.
Brun, Captain, i.
Brunel, Oliver, i.
Bruzewitz, E., i.
,
,
,
; ii. 18, 44, 447, 455;
his measurements of the thickness of the ice, i. [465];
excursion to Najtskaj, ii. [7];
portrait, ii. [449]
Buache, ii.
Buckland, John, i.
Buckland, William, ii.
Buddhism in Japan, ii.
Buldakov, Timofej, ii.
Bulun, i.
,
Burgomaster, i.
;
met with during the voyage, i. [191], [352]; ii. 42
Burney, James, ii.
Burrough, Stephen, i.
,
,
;
his voyage, i. [217]
Busa, Elisej, ii.
Busch, Henry, ii.
Buys, N., ii.
Bychov mouth of the Lena, the, i.
; ii.
C
CABOOK, ii.
,
Cabot, Sebastian, i.
,
,
;
portrait, i. [59]
Cadamosto, ii.
Cairo, stay in, ii.
Cairoli, premier, ii.
,
Cannibals in the North, i.
; ii.
Canton, ii.
Cape Baranov, i.
,
; ii.
,
Cape Borchaja, ii.
Cape Chelyuskin, i.
,
;
arrival at, i. [336];
reindeer there, i. [344], ii. [192n];
flora, i. [340];
is discovered, i. [17], [20]; ii. [193]
Cape Deschnev, ii.
,
Cape Kammennoj, ii.
Cape Mattesol, ii.
Cape Medinski Savorot, ii.
Cape Nassau, ii.
Cape North, i.
; ii.
Cape Olenek, i.
Cape Onman, i.
Cape Prince of Wales, ii.
Cape Ruski Savorot, i.
Cape Schaitanskoj, i.
Cape Schelagskoj, i.
,
; ii.
,
Cape St. John, i.
,
Cape Thaddeus, i.
; ii.
Cape Voronov, i.
Cape Yakan, i.
,
Capello, Brito, ii.
Carabus truncaticollis
, ii.
Carlsen, Elling, ii.
,
Carska Bay, i.
Carthaginians' traffic with African races, ii.
Caspian Sea, former views regarding, ii.
Castrén's Island, i.
Ceylon, stay at, ii.
;
natives, ii. [424]
Chabarova, i.
;
church of, i. [76]
Chacke, Martin, ii.
Chamisso, A. von, ii.
Chancelor, Richard, i.
,
;
his voyage, i. [67];
his death, i. [226n]
Chatanga Bay, i.
; ii.
,
Chatanga river, the, i.
; ii.
,
Cheltinga, midshipman, ii.
Chenizyn, ii.
,
China, stay in, ii.
;
communication with Europe, i. [373];
its future, ii. [403]
Chinese in Japan, ii.
;
at Hong Kong, their treatment, ii. [402];
in Borneo, ii. [412]
Chionoecetes opilio
, ii.
,
Cholodilov, ii.
Chukches, the, compared with other Polar races, i.
,
;
first meeting with, i. [430];
at Cape Yakan, i. [433];
barter with the, i. [439];
at Irkaipij, i. [449];
visit the Vega, i. [486], [513];
at Cape Deschnev, ii. [220];
at Konyam Bay, ii. [221], [245], [246];
on the American side of Behring's Straits, ii. [81], [232];
divided into reindeer and coast Chukches, ii. [81];
number of, ii. [81];
removals, ii. [93];
carry on traffic between America and Siberia, ii. [14], [118];
diseases, ii. [87];
position of the women, ii. [138];
their history, physique, disposition, and manners, ii. [70]
Chukotskojnos, i.
; ii.
,
,
Chvoinoff, landmeasurer, i.
; ii.
Chydenius, Carl, i.
Clarke, Charles, ii.
Clausen, Consul, ii.
,
,
Clothing, i.
;
of the Vega men, i. [476]
Cloudberries, a powerful antiscorbutic, i.
,
Cochrane, John Dundas, ii.
Coffee plantations, ii.
Coleoptera in Novaya Zemlya, i.
;
in North Siberia, i. [321];
at Port Clarence, ii. [242]
Collie, Dr., ii.
Colmogro, i,
; ii.
Colombo (Ceylon), ii.
Colour-blindness, ii.
Colours, Chukch, ii.
Commander's Islands, ii.
Cook, James, i.
,
,
,
,
; ii.
Cooke, Mr, ii.
Copenhagen, the
Vega
calls at, i.
;
reception at, ii. [455]
Copper Island, ii.
,
,
,
Corea, whales with European harpoons caught at, i.
;
Japanese campaign to, ii. [380]
Coregonus caught by the Chukches, i.
; ii.
,
Corpse found in Chukch Land, i.
; ii.
Corundum, ii.
,
Cosmic dust, i.
Coughtrie, J.B., ii.
Coxe, J.H., ii.
Croyère, L'Isle de la, ii.
,
,
Crustacea, phosphorescent, ii.
,
Cruys Eiland, i.
Crystals found on the ice, i.
Currents in the Siberian Polar Sea, i.
Cyqnus Bewickii
, i.
Cystophora cristata
, i.
D
Daat Island, i.
Dahl, Captain, i.
Daibutsu statues, ii.
Dale, Fr. de la, i.
,
Dall, W.H. i.
; ii.
,
Dallia delicatissima
, ii.
,
Dallmann, Captain, i.
,
,
Daubrée, A., ii.
David, Russian ambassador, i.
Dawn
(vessel), the, i.
Day-reckoning on board the
Vega
, i.
Delisle, i.
De Long, Captain, i.
Dementiev, ii.
Deschnev Simeon, i.
,
,
; ii.
,
;
voyages of, ii. [164]
Devil's Temple at Ratnapoora, ii.
Diamonds, ii.
,
Diastylis Rathkei
, i.
,
Diatoms, fresh-water, on sea ice, i.
Dickson Island, i.
Dietary of the expedition, i.
Diomede Island, ii.
Disco Island, i.
Dittmar, C. von, ii.
,
Dixon, Alexander C., ii.
Dog-fish, ii.
Dogs, Samoyed, i.
;
tow boats on the Yenisej, i. [385];
sacrificed, ii. [255]
Dolgans, i.
Dolgoi Island, i.
,
; ii.
Donis, Nic, i.
; ii.
Doria, Marquis, ii.
Dörma, hunter, i.
Draba alpina
, i.
,
; ii.
Dredgings, zoological, i.
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
; ii.
,
,
,
,
Driftwood, at Port Dickson, i.
;
at Beli Ostrov. i. [201]
Drums, Shaman, ii.
,
Dsungaria, i.
Dudino, i.
; ii
;
thanksgiving service at, i. [369]
Du Halde J.B., ii.
Durfoorth, Cornelius, i.
Dutch, first voyage of the, i.
;
second voyage, i. [243];
third voyage, i. [245]
Dwina, the river, i.
,
,
; ii.
Dyaks, ii.
Dybovski, Benedikt, ii.
E
Earth, changes of the surface of the, in the arctic regions, i.
East Cape, ii.
,
Edge, Thomas, i.
Edward VI. of England, i.
Edward Bonaventure
(vessel) i.
,
,
;
its fate i. [225n]
Egypt, stay in, ii.
Ehlertz, Russian official, i.
Eider, i.
,
,
;
import of down, i. 125n
Eisen, G., i.
Elfving N. A., i.
Elliott, H. W., i.
; ii.
,
,
Elpidia glacialis
, i.
,
i.
; ii.
Emberiza nivalis
, i.
,
,
,
; ii.
Emeralds, ii.
England, stay in, ii.
;
development of its navigation, i. [58];
north-east voyages from, i. [60], [215]
Enhydris lutris
, ii.
,
Enontekis, the climate of, i.
Enoshima, excursion to, ii.
Ensamheten (island), i.
,
Envall, A., i.
Erik the Red, ii.
Eschscholz Bay, ii.
,
Eskimo in North America, i.
, ii.
,
Eskimo at Port Clarence, banter with, ii.
,
;
dress, ii. [232];
boats, ii. [228];
carvings, ii. [237], [240], [241];
artistic skill, ii. [134];
religion, ii. [239n]
Eskimo in Asia, ii.
Eskimo on St. Lawrence Island, ii.
Eumetopias Stelleri
, i.
; ii.
,
,
Europæus, E. D., i.
Eurynorhynchus pygmæus
, ii.
Everlöf, Consul-general, ii.
Evertebrates living by turns in fresh and salt water, i.
Exhibitions, Japanese, ii.
,
Exiles, Siberian, i.
Express
(ship), i.
,
,
,
,
;
voyage of, i. [357]
F
Faddeyev Island, ii.
,
Falcons on Yalmal i.
Falmouth, arrival at, ii.
Feodor, the Cossack, i.
,
Ferry, Jules, i.
Figurin, the surgeon, ii.
Finmark, the settlement of, i.
Fins carry on navigation in the Murman Sea, i.
,
Finsch, Richard, i.
,
Finsch, O., i.
Fire-drill, Chukch, ii.
Fixed dwellings, i.
Flawes, Captain, i.
Fletcher, Giles, i.
Föhn wind, the, i.
; ii.
Fomin, the Yakut, i.
Food-plants, Chukch, ii.
Ford, Charles, ii.
Foreland Sound, the, i.
Fossil plants at Mogi, ii.
;
at Labaan, ii. [407];
in Egypt, ii. [440]
Foal Bay, i.
,
[ Fox, the Arctic (or mountain)]
, i.
; ii.
,
,
; common
ib.
Föyn, Svend, i.
Fra Mauro's map, ii.
Franklin, Martin, ii.
Franz Josef Land, i.
,
,
,
Fraser
(steamer), i.
,
,
,
,
,
;
voyage, i. [357]
Fretum Nassovicum (Yugor Schar), i.
,
,
Frost-bite, i.
; ii.
Frost-formation, the Siberian, ii.
Frozen ground in Finland, ii.
Fruholm, the climate of, i.
Fuligula glacialis
, i.
,
;
found during the expedition, i. [334]; ii. [46]
——
Stelleri
, ii.
Fusiyama, ii.
,
Fusus deformis
, ii.
G
Gadus navaga
, i.
Gagarin, Prince, ii.
Gama, Vasco da, ii.
Gardiner, Charles, i.
Geertz, Dr., ii.
,
Gefferson, William, i.
Gessner, Conrad, ii.
Gillissy (Yenisej), i.
,
Giusso, Count, ii.
Glacier-iceblocks in the Polar seas, ii.
;
burst asunder, i. [424]
Glaciers, various kinds of, i.
;
formerly in North-Eastern Asia, ii. [227], [246]
Gmelin, ii.
Gold lustre, stones with, on Novaya Zemlya, i.
,
Gold diggings, Siberian, i.
Golovin, second mate, ii.
Golovin, Captain, ii.
Goltschicha, i.
,
,
,
Goreloj, Andrej, ii.
Gorm
(larva of
Oestrus tarandi
), i.
; ii.
,
Gosho, palace in Kioto, ii.
Gothenburg, i.
Goulden, Captain, i.
Gourdon, William, i.
Graculus bicristatus
, i.
Grandidier, ii.
Granite, weathered, ii.
Grant, U. S., General, ii.
Graphite, ii.
Graves, Siberian, i.
;
Chukch, i. [437]; ii. [89], [225];
Eskimo, ii. [238]
Grebnitski, ii.
,
Greeks, geographical ideas of the, ii.
Green Harbour, i.
Greenland said to be continuous with Norway, i.
;
Inland-ice, i. [176]
Greenland seal, i.
,
Greenlander's dress, i.
;
compared with other Polar races, i. [90]; ii. [144];
are descended from Norse colonists, ii. [145]
Grévy, President, ii.
,
"Grip-claws" found in Siberia, ii.
Gubin, mate, i.
Gundersen, captain of the
Express
, i.
Gundersen, M., i.
Gusinnaya Semlya,
see
Gustaf Vasa's plan of a north-east passage, i.
Guturov, Peter, ii.
Gvosdarev, mate, i.
Gvosdev, Michael, ii.
,
Gyda Bay surveyed, ii.
Gygax, Dr, ii.
H
Haga dust, the, i.
Haimann, Guiseppe, ii.
Hakluyt, Richard, i.
Hall, Captain, ii.
Halos, i.
,
Hamy, Dr., ii.
Hardy, R. Spence, ii.
Hares, i.
; ii.
;
snow-blind, i. [508].
Hartman, Hendrik, i.
Haven, P. von, ii.
Health, state of, during the wintering, i.
Hecht, ii.
Hedenström, i.
,
,
;
travels, ii. [205];
life, ii. [203n]
Heemskerk, i.
Hellant, A., ii.
Hennessy, Pope, ii.
,
Hens, Jacob, ii.
Herald Island, ii.
Herbertsten, Sigismund von, i.
; ii.
Herdebol, ore-tester, ii.
Herodotus on the geography of Asia, ii.
,
;
on Androphagi, i.
; ii.
Heuglin, Baron von, i.
Hideyoshi, Taiko, ii.
Hinloopen Strait, i.
,
,
Hirosami, ii.
Histriophoca fasciata
, ii.
,
,
Holland, development of its navigation, i.
Holmgren, A.E., i.
Holmgren, Fr., ii.
Holstein-Holsteinborg, Count, ii.
Homer, ii.
Hong Kong, ii.
; rocks at, ii.
Hooper, ii.
,
,
,
,
,
,
Hoorn, Jan Cornelisz van, i.
Hope Island, i.
Horn Sound, i.
,
,
,
,
Hovgaard, A., i.
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
; ii.
,
,
,
,
;
Excursion to Menka's home, i. [500];
portrait, ii. [449]
Hudson, Henry, i.
Hugo, Victor, ii.
Humbert, King, ii.
Hyacinth (precious stone), ii.
I
Ice, different kinds of, in the Polar Seas, i.
;
action on the sea-bottom, i. [188];
thickness during the wintering, i. [465]
Icebergs, i.
;
size of, i. [422]
Ice Fjord, i.
,
,
Icing up, i.
Ides, Evert Yssbrants, i.
Idlidlja (island), ii.
Idothea entomon
, i.
,
,
,
——
Sabinei
, i.
,
,
Ignatiev, ii.
Ikaho, ii.
Ilgin, mate, ii.
Illusions caused by mist, i.
; ii.
Indians, driven, i.
Indigirka, ii.
Ingön, i.
Inland-ice, i.
,
; ii.
Inland Sea, of Japan, ii.
,
Inn, Japanese, ii.
,
Insects, i.
,
,
; ii.
,
;
frozen stiff, i. [148]; ii. [54];
in a bird's nest, i. [118]
Insula Tazata, ii.
Irbit, i.
Irgunnuk, i.
; ii.
Irkaipij, i.
; ii.
Irtisch, i.
,
; ii.
Islands in the Siberian Sea, accounts of, i.
; ii.
,
,
Isleif, i.
Istoma, Gregory, i.
; ii.
Italy, ii.
Ito-Keske, ii.
Ivanov, mate, i.
Ivanov, Rodivan, i.
Ivens, ii.
Ivory coat of mail, ii.
J
Jackman's voyages, i.
,
Jakovlev, Peter, ii.
Jauszoon, Harman, i.
Japan, ii.
Japanese, ii.
,
,
Japanese voyage round the world, i.
Jeanette
, the expedition of the, i.
Jinrikisha, ii.
Johannes de Plano Carpini, i.
Johannesen, Chr., i.
,
,
,
,
,
Johannesen, Edward, i.
,
Johannesen, Sören, i.
Jovius, Paulus, i.
Jugaria, i.
Juschkov, i.
K
Kalias river, the, ii.
Kamakura, ii.
Kamchatka discovered, ii.
;
subjugated, ii. [167];
first voyage to, ii. [176];
its extent towards the south in old maps, ii. [181]
Kamchatka river, the, ii.
Kamenni Ostrova, i.
Kämpfer, E., ii.
Kanin-nos, i.
Karaginsk Island, ii.
Kara port, the, i.
;
Pet sails through it, i. [229]
Kara river, wintering at the, ii.
Kara Sea, the, voyage across, i.
;
its name, i. [172];
its boundaries, i. [175];
temperature of the water, i. [185];
fauna, i. [184];
algæ, 185;
icebergs uncommon in, i. [182];
"ice-house," i. [182];
navigated for the first time by West-Europeans, i. [227];
voyages to, i. [286]
Kargauts, i.
Karlskrona, i.
Karmakul Bay, i.
,
Kascholong, ii.
Kawamura, Admiral, ii.
,
,
;
portrait of, ii. [302]
Kay, E.C. Lister, i.
Kegor, i.
Kellett, i.
; ii.
Kellett Land, ii.
Keswick, ii.
Keulen's Atlas, ii.
Kilduin, i.
Killingworth, George, i.
Kindäkov, ii.
King's Bay, i.
Kini Balu mountain, ii.
Kioto, ii.
,
,
Kirilov, secretary, ii.
Kita-Shira-Kava, ii.
,
Kittiwake, see
Kittlitz, ii.
Kjellman, F.R., i.
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
;
ii. [15], [225], [240], [245], [254], [291], [292], [414], [434], [447];
sketch of a day during the wintering, i. [513];
portrait, ii. [435]
Klapmyts, i.
Klingstedt, i.
,
Klokov, i.
Knoop, Baron, i.
Koba-Yoschi, ii.
,
Kobe, stay at, ii.
Koch, i.
Kola, i.
,
,
Kolesoff, I. P., i.
,
Kolgujev Island, i.
,
Kolmogor, i.
; ii.
Kolmogorzov, i.
Kolyma river, the, i.
; ii.
,
,
,
,
;
discovered, ii. [163]
Kolyutschin Bay, ii.
,
;
Vega comes to, i, [456];
its extent, ii. [31], [32], [76]
Kolyutschin Island, i.
,
Kompakova river, the, ii.
Konungs skuggjá on the walrus, i.
Konyam Bay, ii.
,
;
Vega comes to, ii. [245]
Kopai, a Schelag, ii.
Korepovskoj, i.
,
Korovin, hunter, ii.
,
Koryäks, ii.
,
,
Koscheleff, ii.
Koschelev, ii.
Koschevin, ii.
Kosirevskoj, Ivan, ii.
Kosmin, mate, ii.
Kostin Schar, i.
Kotelnoj Island, i.
; ii.
,
,
Kotsches, i.
; ii.
Kotschuga, i.
Kotzebue, i.
; ii.
,
;
stay at St. Lawrence Island, ii. [254]
Krascheninnikov, ii.
,
,
Krassilinikoff, ii.
Krestovski Island, ii.
Krestovskoj, i.
,
Krestovskoj arm, the, ii.
Kroma river, the, ii.
Krotov, Lieut., i.
Krusenstern, M. von, i.
; ii.
Krusenstern, Paul von, the elder, i.
Krusenstern, Paul von, the younger, i.
;
his portrait, i. [285]
Küber, Dr., ii.
Kühn, Franz, ii.
Kung Karl's Land, i.
,
Kurbski, S. T., ii.
Kuro-Sivo, ii.
Kusakov, ii.
Kusatsu, stay at, ii.
;
the healing power of the baths, ii. [345]
Kutschum Khan, ii.
Kythay lacus, ii.
L
Labuan, ii.
Lagomys, ii.
Lagercrantz, ii.
,
Lagoon formations, i.
Lagopus hyperboreus
, i.
,
,
,
,
Lagopus subalpinus
, ii.
La Madelene, ii.
La Martinière, i.
;
his map, i. [259]
Laminaria solidungula
, i.
Lamps, Chukch, ii.
Landmarks, i.
Land worms, i.
Languet, Hubert, i.
Lapland, the Dutch navigation to, i.
Lapps, the, dress, i.
;
spoken of by Othere, i. [48n], [51];
compared with other Polar races, i. [90];
skilful hunters, i. [224n]
Lapp sparrow, see
Laptev, Chariton, i.
,
,
;
voyages, ii. [190]
Laptev, Dimitri, i.
;
first voyage, ii. [193];
second voyage, ii. [195]
La Roncière le Noury, ii.
Larus eburneus
, i.
,
; ii.
;
met with during expedition, i. [343]; ii. [42]
——
glaucus
, i.
;
met with during expedition, i. [191], [321], [352]; ii. [47]
——
Rossii
, i.
,
; ii.
——
Sabinii
, i.
,
,
i.
;
seen during expedition, i. [334], [352]; ii. [42]
Lasarev, i.
Lassinius, i.
; ii.
;
voyage, ii. [193]
Laxman, ii.
Lectures during the wintering, ii.
Lemming, the, i.
;
met with during the expedition, i. [191], [343], [437]; ii. [44]
Lena (river), the, ascent of, i.
;
river area, i. [372n];
navigable, i. [374];
its natural beauty, ii. [188n];
discovered, ii [160];
Russian voyages from, ii. [187], [198]
Lena
(steamer), i.
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
;
parting from Vega, i. [355];
voyage up the river Lena, i. [367]
Lena delta, the, i.
Leontiev, ii.
Leprosy in Japan ii.
Lesseps, ii.
Lestris Buffonii
, i.
,
——
parasitica
, i.
,
,
——
pomarina
, i.
Letters sent home, i.
,
; ii.
Lechtenberg, ii.
Lighthouse Island, i.
Lilljeborg, W, ii.
Limit of trees in the north of Europe and Asia, i.
;
at the Yenisej, i. [381];
at the Lena, i. [43]
Lindstrand, ii.
Linnæa borealis
, ii.
,
Linnæus, ii.
Linschoten, i.
,
Lisbon, stay in, ii.
L'Isle de la Croyère, ii.
,
,
Little Auk, see
Ljachoff, i.
,
; ii.
ii.
,
,
;
Vega comes to, i. [415]
Logan, J, i.
Lomme Bay, i.
London, stay at, ii.
Long, Captain, i.
, ii.
Looms met with at Port Dickson, i.
,
Loschkin, S., i.
,
Loshak, i.
Lotterius, map by, ii.
Louise
(steamer), i.
,
Ludlow, miner, i.
Luiz, King of Portugal, ii.
Lundström, A. N., i.
,
,
,
Lussov, ii.
Lütké, von, i.
,
; ii.
,
,
;
portrait, i. [278]
M
MacClintock, i.
Machimura Masinovo, ii.
Mack, F.E., 298
Madvig, J.N., ii.
Maelson, F., i.
Magnetical observations during the wintering, i.
Magnus, Johannes, i.
Magnus, Olaus, i.
,
;
map of the North, i. [53], [56];
views regarding the North-east Passage, i. [53n]
Mäklin, F.W., i.
Malacca, Straits of, ii.
Malays on Labuan and Borneo, ii.
,
Maldonado, L.F., i.
Malgin, N., ii.
Malm, A.W., i.
Malmgren, A.J., i.
,
Maloj Island, ii.
,
Malvano, Secretary of the Italian Cabinet, ii.
Malygin, i.
,
; ii.
Mammoth, i.
,
,
,
;
in Europe, i. [399];
in Chukch Land, ii. [66];
at Eschscholz Bay, i. [228n];
old accounts of, i. [404];
legends regarding its mode of life, i. [405]
Maosoe, stay at, i.
,
;
climate, i. [45]
Maps of the North, i.
Marco Polo,
see
Markets in Siberia and Polar America, ii.
,
Markham, Clements R., ii.
Markov, A., ii.
Marseilles, invitation to, ii.
Martino, Consul-general, ii
Massa, Isaak, ii.
; his map, i.
,
; ii.
Massage in Japan, ii.
Matiuschin, midshipman, ii.
Matotschkin Schar, i.
,
,
;
mountains in its neighbourhood, i. [173];
stone ramparts on its shores, i. [188];
surveyed, i. [282]
Matveyev Island, i.
Maunoir, ii.
Maurice Island, i.
Maydell, G. von, i.
; ii.
Medals in memory of the voyage of the
Vega
, ii.
,
Melchior, state councillor, ii.
Melguer, David, ii.
Melkaja Guba, i.
Menka, i.
,
; ii.
;
portrait, i. [495]
, i.
Mertens, ii.
Mesen, i.
,
; ii.
Mesenkin, i.
;
mammoth remains found at, i. [410]
Messerschmidt, i.
Mestni Island, i.
,
,
,
Meteorological observations, i.
; ii.
Metridia armata
, ii.
Metschigme Bay, ii.
,
Meyenvaldt, mate, i.
,
Mieralymma Dicksoni
, i.
Middendorff, i.
,
; ii.
Migrating birds, ii.
Mikado, audience of, ii
Miller, i.
Mimisuka, the grave of the noses and ears, ii.
Minin, i.
; ii.
,
Minusinsk, i.
Mirabelli, A., ii.
Mogi, excursion to, ii.
;
fossil plants at, ii. [392]
Mohn, i.
Moisture in the air, i.
Mokattam mountains, excursion to, ii.
Molin, A., ii.
Mollusca, land and fresh-water, at Port Clarence, ii.
;
at Konyam Bay, ii. [245];
the northernmost, ii. [245]
Mollusca, subfossil, in Siberia, i.
Moma, the river, ii.
Moore, Captain, ii.
,
,
Morgiovets, i.
Mormon Arcticus
, i.
Morosko, L., ii.
,
Maskwa
(steamer), i.
Mosquitoes in the Polar regions, i.
Motora, Simeon, ii.
Moxon, Joseph, i.
Mucheron, B., i.
Müller, G.P., i. 16
n
,
,
; ii.
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
Müller, J.B., i.
Münster, S., ii.
Muravjev, Lieut., i.
; ii.
Murman Sea, i.
Murray, Colin, ii.
Muscovy Company, i.
,
Musk ox, discovery of the remains of, i.
; ii.
;
supposed occurrence of, on Wrangel Land, i. [449n]
Mustela vulgaris
, ii.
Mutnaja river, i.
Mutnoj Saliv, ii.
Myodes obensis
, i.
; ii.
Myodes torquatus
, ii.
N
Nagasaki, arrival at, ii.
Nakasendo road, the, ii.
,
Namollo, ii.
,
Naples, stay at, ii.
Narainzay river, i.
Narborough, John, i.
Narwhal, i.
,
Narontza river, i.
Nathorst, A.G., ii.
,
,
Nay, C., i.
Nearchus, i.
Nedrevaag, A.O., i.
Negri, C., i.
; ii.
Nephrite among the Eskimo, ii.
;
among the Chinese, ii. [236n], [399]
Neremskoe, i.
Neumann, C. von, ii.
,
New Siberian Islands, i.
,
,
,
; ii.
;
exploratory journeys to, i. [412];
first visited by Europeans, ii. [204];
journeys to, ii. [205]
Nierop, i.
Nikul river, ii.
Nilson, K., ii.
Njaskaja, i.
Noah Elisej, ii.
;
portrait, ii. [51]
Noah's Wood, i.
,
,
; ii.
Nobel, A., ii.
Nordenskiöld, K., i.
; ii.
Nordenskiöld
(steamer), ii.
,
Nordquist, O., i.
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
;
ii. [12], [44], [82], [115], [315], [362], [369], [371], [435], [447];
excursion to Menka's home, i. [497];
visit to Pidlin, i. [502];
excursion to Nutschoitjin, ii. [18];
on the animals wintering in Chukch Laud, ii. [44];
portrait, ii. [435]
Nordvik, ii.
Noril Mountains, i.
North-east Land, inland ice on, i.
North-east Passage, reasons of search for, i.
,
;
prize for its discovery, i. [246]
North Pole, said to have been reached, i.
Norways, the i.
Northbrook, Earl of, ii.
Notti, ii.
,
,
,
;
portrait, ii. [8]
Novara Elliya, ii.
Novaya Sibir, ii.
,
,
Novaya Zemlya, animal life there, i.
;
first known to West-Europeans, i. [215];
its name, i. [216];
Russian landmarks on, i. [228n];
its northern extremity passed for the first time, i. [248];
proposal to colonise it, i. [271n];
supposed riches in metals, i. [277];
Russian voyages to, i. [280];
Norwegian voyages to, i. [293];
curcumnavigation of, i. [297]
Nummelin, G.A., i.
,
;
portrait, i. [316]
Nunamo, ii.
Nutschoitjin, excursion to, ii.
O
Ob, Gulf of, Owzyn's voyage on, ii.
,
;
surveyed, ii. [186]
Ob, river territory, i.
;
navigable, i. [374];
first mentioned, ii. [157];
Russian navigation to in former times, i. [226], [244], [271];
English vessel stranded at, i. [229n], [256];
vessel stranded east of, i. [271];
Russian expedition to, ii. [183];
recent voyages to, i. [313]
Obdorsk, i.
,
; ii.
,
Observatory, magnetical, at Pitlekaj, i.
,
Oiwaki, ii.
Okotsk, ii.
Okotsk, Sea of, bottom frozen, ii.
;
navigation on, ii. [175], [176]
Okuschi, ii.
Old Believers, Russian sect i.
,
Olenek river, i.
,
, ii.
,
,
Olutorsk river, ii.
Onkilon tribe, the ii.
,
;
excavations on the sites of old dwellings i. [444];
implements, i. [444];
Wrangel's account of them, i. [446]
Oom, L.G., i.
Oordt, Consul van, ii.
Ophiacantha bidentata
, i.
Ophioglypha nodosa
, ii.
Orange Island, i.
Orange Islands, i.
,
Orca gladiator
, i.
Orosius, Paulus, i.
Osaka, ii.
,
Oscar, Duke of Gotland, ii.
,
Oscar, King, i.
,
; ii.
,
,
Osche, ii.
Oshima, ii.
Osmerus eperlanus
, i.
Ostatiof, M., ii.
Ostyaks, i.
Otaria Stelleri, see
Otaria ursina, see
Othere, i.
;
voyage, i. [47]
Otter, F.W. von, i.
; ii.
Owl, snowy, i.
;
observed during expedition, i. [343], [352]
Owzyn, Lieut, i.
; ii.
,
P
Pachtussov, voyages of, i.
;
death of, i. [282]
Paget, Sir A.B., ii.
Paj-Roj mountain, the, i.
Palander, L, i.
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
; ii.
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
;
excursion to a reindeer-chukch camp, ii. [15];
portrait, ii. [68]
Pallas, ii.
,
Pallavicini, Prince, ii.
Palliser, John, i.
Palmieri, Prof., ii.
Panelapoetski, i.
Pansch, Dr., i.
Pappan Island, ii.
Paradeniya, botanic garden at, ii.
Parent, E., ii.
Paris,
fêtes
at, ii.
Parositi, Asiatic tribe, i.
Parry Island, i.
,
Parry, Sir Edward, ii.
,
Paulov, Lieut, i.
; i.
Paulutski, D., ii.
,
Payer, i.,
,
Pedrotalagalla, ii.
,
Pekarski, ii.
Pelikan, Consul, ii.
Penschina Bay, ii.
Penschina River, ii.
Permakov, J., ii.
Perry, Commodore, ii.
Pet, A., i.
,
; his voyages, i.
Petchora river, i.
,
,
; ii.
Peter the Great, ii.
,
Petermann, A., his belief that the Polar Sea is occasionally navigable, i.
Petersen, C., i.
,
Petropaulovsk, ii.
,
,
Pet's Straits, i.
i
,
,
;
observed during the expedition, i. [415], [437]; ii. [42]
Philip and Mary
(vessel), i.
Phipps Island, i.
Phoca barbata
, i.
,
,
Phoca Groenlandica
, i.
;
young of the, [164]
Phoca hispida
, i.
,
Pidlin, i.
;
excursion to, i. [502]
Pinto, Major, ii.
Piper, Count, ii.
Pitlekaj, i.
;
flora at, i. [468];
appearance of, ii. [60]
Pjäsina River, i.
; ii.
;
is discovered, ii. [160]
Plancius, Dutch geographer, i.
Pleuropogon Sabini
, i.
Pliny the elder, ii.
,
Plover expedition, ii.
,
Podurids, Novaya Zemlya, i.
Poetry, Japanese, ii.
Pogytscha, River, ii.
Point de Galle, arrival at, ii.
;
departure from, ii. [437]
[ Polar bear seen during the expedition,]
i.
,
,
; ii.
;
account of, i. [137]
Polar Sea hunting, i.
Pole of cold, i.
Police in Japan, ii.
i.
, 144; ii.
,
;
his life, ii. [153]
Polynias, i.
Pompeii, excursion to, ii.
Pontchartrin, Count de, ii.
Poole, J., i.
Popov, ii.
Porcelain manufacture in Japan, ii.
Port Clarence, ii.
Port Dickson, i.
;
stay at, i. [189];
its discovery, i. [311]
Porthan, i.
Portugal, stay in, ii.
Pospjelov, i.
Postels, ii.
Postnik, ii.
Potatoes, antiscorbutic, i.
Preobraschenie Island, i.
Pribylov, ii.
Pribylov Islands, ii.
Priluschnoj, i.
Procellaria galcialis
, i.
Promontorium Scythicum
, ii.
Promontorium Tabin
, ii.
Prontschischev, i. 19; ii.
,
Protodiakonoff, Z., i.
Proeven
(hunting sloop), i.
,
Provision depôt on land, i.
Ptolemy, ii.
Purchas, i.
Puschkarev, ii.
Pustosersk, i.
Putrefaction slow in the Polar regions, i.
Pyramids, the, visit to, ii.
Q
Quaen Sea, i.
Quaens, skilful harpooners, i.
Quale, P, i.
Quatrefages, ii.
R
Rabaut, A., ii.
Railway, Siberian, i.
Rambodde, ii.
Ratnapoora, ii.
Recherché's
wintering, ii.
Red ochre, ii.
Red Sea, ii.
Reindeer, tame, i.
; wild, i.
Reindeer's skin used for clothing, i.
Reindeer's stomach, contents of, consumed by the Chukches, i.
Reitinacka, ii.
,
Renoe, i.
Rhinoceros antiquitatis
, i.
Rhinoceros Merckii
, i.
Rhytina, ii.
Riccio, ii.
Richter, Consul-general, ii.
Rijp, i.
Riksdag, the, supports the expedition, i.
Rio-San, ii.
Rirajtinop, i.
Robeck, ii.
Rodgers, i.
Rokuriga-hara, ii.
Romanzov, ii.
Rondes (sable), i.
Rookery, ii.
Rossmuislov, i.
Rotgansen, i.
Rotschilten, ii.
,
Roule, C., i.
Rubies, ii.
Ruggieri, Prof., ii.
Ruinlike rock formations, i.
Runeberg, R., i.
Ruspoli, Prince, ii.
Russians, at Chabarova, i.
S
Sabinea septemcarinata
, ii.
Sachanich Bay, i.
Sacrificial heights, i.
Saigo Kichinosuke ii.
Sajsan, Lake, i.
Salix artica
, ii.
Samoyeds, i.
;
their dress, i. [89];
Compared with other Polar races, i. [91];
burying place, i. [97];
their weapons, i. [99];
old accounts of them, i. [100];
their place in ethnography, i. [103]
Samurai, ii.
Sandman, Captain, ii.
Sandpiper,
see
Sankin Grigorej, ii.
Sannikov, i.
Sanyo Sanitomi, ii.
Saostrovskoj, i.
Sapetto, Prof., ii.
Sapphires, ii.
Sarytschev, ii.
Satow, E M, ii.
Sauer, Martin, i.
Savavatari, ii.
Savina river, i.
Schalaurov, ii.
Schelags, ii.
Schelechov, G, ii.
Scheltinga, ii.
Schestakov, A, ii.
Schigansk, i.
Schmidt, F, i.
Schmidt, H, i.
Schrenck, L von, i.
Schtinnikov, A, ii.
Schwanenberg, D, i.
,
Scoresby, i.
Scurvy, i.
; ii.
ii.
Sea-cow, ii.
i. 446; ii.
Sea-otter, ii.
Sea-spider, i.
Seals, i.
Sealskin used as clothing, i.
Searchthrift
(vessel), i.
Seebohm, Mr., i.
Selenetz Islands, i.
Selenga, i.
Selennoe Lake, i.
Self-dead animals, i.
Selifontov, i.
Selivaninskoj, i.
Selivestrov, ii.
Semenoffski Island, i.
Semipalitinsk, i.
Senjavin Sound, ii.
Senkiti-San, ii.
Serapoa Koska, i.
Serdze Kamen, i.
Seribrenikoff, S. J., i.
Seven Islands, i.
Severnoe Sianie
, i.
Shamans, ii.
Shaman drums, ii.
Shimonoseki. ii.
Shintoism, ii.
Sibbern, ii.
Siberian Polar Sea, i.
,
Siberian cattle plague, i.
Sibir, ii.
Sibiriakoff, A., i.
,
,
,
Sibiriakoff Island, ii.
Sidoroff, M., i.
Sidoroff's graphite quarry, ii.
Siebold, P. H. F. von, ii.
Siebold, H. von, ii.
Sieversia glacialis
, i.
Simonsen, i.
Simovies, i.
Simpson, John, ii.
Singapore, ii.
Singhalese, ii.
Sirovatskoj, ii.
Skoptzi in Siberia, i.
Skuratov, i.
Slaves among the Chukches, ii.
Sledges, i.
,
Smitt, F.A., ii.
Snobberger, C. P., i.
Snow-blindness, i.
; ii.
Snow-bunting, the, ii.
Snow-drifting, i.
Snow-shoes, ii.
Snow-spectacles, i.
; ii.
Snow, the melting of the, ii.
Snups, M., ii.
Sokolov, ii.
Solovets, ii.
Somateria molissima
, i.
Somateria spectabilis
, i.
Somateria V.-nigrum
, ii.
Spangberg, Martin, ii.
Spinel, ii
Spirits, i.
; ii.
,
,
Spitzbergen hunting, history of, i.
Spitzbergen, its discovery ascribed to Willoughby, i.
;
discovered by Barents, i. [247];
Russian voyages to, i. [291];
Norwegian voyages to, i. [293]
Spottiswoode, Mr., ii.
Springs, hot, ii.
St. James's Islands, i.
St. Laurens Bay, i.
St. Lawrence Bay, ii.
,
St. Lawrence Island, i.
; ii.
Stegocephalus Kessleri
, ii.
Stellar, G. N., ii.
,
,
,
;
his death, ii. [268]
Steppes, Siberian, i.
Sterna macroura
, i.
Stockholm, arrival at, ii.
Stolbovoj Island, i.
Stone Pacha, ii.
Stone polishing works in Canton, ii.
Strabo, ii.
,
Strahlenberg i.
Strix nyctea
, i.
Stroganov, Russian commercial house, i.
Stuxberg, A., i.
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
; ii.
,
,
,
;
portrait, ii. [435]
Suez, arrival at, ii.
Suez Canal, the, ii.
Sujeff, student, i.
Swan, Bewick's, i.
Swedish expedition of 1875, the, i.
;
visits Yalmal, i. [205];
reaches the Yenisej, i. [311]
Swedish prisoners of war in Siberia, ii.
Swell from falling pieces of ice dangerous to vessels, i.
Sword-bearing in Japan, ii.
Sylvia Ewersmanni
, ii.
Sylvius, Aeneas, i.
T
Tabin, Promontorium, i.
,
Taffelbeiget, ii.
Tagil river, the, ii.
Taimur Island, i.
Taimur lake, ii.
Taimur Land, inhabited by Samoyeds, i.
;
position of its east coast, i. [352];
Minin's travels along the coast, ii. [187]
Taimur river, the, i.
Takasaki, ii.
Takasima coal mine, ii.
Tamils, ii.
Tanning reindeer hides hides, ii.
Tas-ary, i.
,
Tas river, the, ii.
,
Tatarinov, Feodor, ii.
Tatariov, Cossack, ii.
Tattooing, Chukch, i.
; ii.
;
Eskimo, at Port Clarence, ii. [232];
Eskimo, at St. Lawrence island ii. [251], [252]
Tazata, Insula
, ii.
Teano, Prince, ii.
,
Temples in Japan, ii.
,
;
on Ceylon, ii. [425]
Tennent, E, ii.
,
,
Terfins, i.
Tetgales, B. Y., i.
Thalassiophyllum Clathrus
, ii.
Théel, Hj, i.
,
Theatres in Japan, ii.
Thorne, Robert, i.
Thunberg, C. P., ii.
,
Thwaites, Dr., ii.
Tietgen, state councillor, ii.
Tigil River, the, ii.
,
Tintinyaranga, i.
Tjapka, Chukch village, ii.
Tjumen, ii.
,
Tobacco, its use among the Chukches, ii.
;
in Japan, ii. [321]
Tobiesen, S. K., i.
,
,
,
,
;
his voyage to Spitzbergen, i. [302];
wintering on Bear Island, i. [303];
his death, i. [305];
his portrait, i. [303]
Tobol river, the, ii.
Tobolsk, i.
; ii.
,
Tokaido road, the, ii.
Tokio, visit to, ii.
;
the Shoguns' graves at, ii. [309]
Topaz, ii.
,
Toporkoff Island, ii.
Torosses
, i.
,
; ii.
Toxar Island, i.
Treacher, Governor, ii.
Trees, distribution of, in Siberia, i.
Tringa maritima
, i.
Trofimov's mammoth, i.
Tromsoe,
Vega's
stay at, i.
;
its climate, i. [45n]
Tumat Island, i.
Tundra
, appearance of the, i.
Tunguses, i.
,
; ii.
U
Umbellula in the Kara Sea, i.
Ural-Altaic race, i.
Uria Brünnichii
, i.
——
grylle
, i.
Urusov, Prince, ii.
Ustjansk, ii.
,
Usui toge, ii.
V
Vardoe, i.
,
;
climate of, i. [45]
Varsina river, the, i.
Varthema, Luduvico de, ii.
Vasa Murrhina, ii.
Vaygats Island, i.
,
;
discovered, i. [215];
visited by Pet, i. [228]
Veer, Gerrit de, i.
;
his book, i. [245];
Vega, the, purchased, i. [8];
description of, i. [9];
equipment of, i. [11];
position when frozen in, i. [468];
action of cold on, i. [466];
prepared for wintering, i. [469];
repaired, ii. [396];
sold, ii. [463]
Vessels, Norse, i.
;
Russian, on the Polar sea, i. [219]
Vlamingh, i.
Volcanic dust in Scandinavia, i.
Volcanoes, ii.
Vulpes lagopus
, see
——
vulgaris
, see
W
Waern, C. F., i.
Waldburg-Zeil, Count, i.
Walden Island, i.
Walrus, i.
Walton, Lieut., ii.
Wax tree, the Japanese, ii.
Waxel, Lieut, ii.
Weasel, ii.
Werchojansk, i.
Werkon, the river, ii.
Weyprecht, i.
Whales, on the coast of Norway, i.
;
scarce at Novaya Zemlya, i, [168];
fear of, in ancient times, i. [169];
with European harpoons, found in the Pacific, i. [264]
Whale bones on Spitzbergen, i.
;
sub-fossil at Pitlekaj, i. [520];
used is building materials, ii. [223];
at St. Lawrence Island, ii. [253]
Whale-fishing, described by Albertus Magnus, i.
;
at Spitzbergen, i. [168]
Whale
mummy
at Pitlekaj, i.
White-fronted goose, i.
White Island,
see
White Sea, the, i.
White whale, the, i.
,
Widmark, H. A., ii.
Wiemut, Julian, ii.
Wiggins, J., i.
,
;
portrait, i. [313]
Wilkoffski, ii.
Willoughby, Sir Hugh, i.
,
; portrait, i.
Willoughby's, Land, i.
Wilui river, the, i.
Wood, Captain, i.
Wosnessenski, conservator, ii.
Wrangel, Ferdinand von, i.
,
,
;
journeys, ii. [209];
portrait, ii. [208]
Wrangel Land, i.
,
,
; ii.
,
,
;
landing on, i. [448]
Wrestlers, Japanese, ii.
Wulfstan's travels, i.
Y
Yakovieva, i.
Yakuts, i.
; ii.
Yakutsk, i.
,
,
,
,
; ii.
,
,
Yalmal, exclusion to, i.
;
visited in 1875, i. [205];
population i. [204];
origin of the name, i. [203];
old accounts of, i. [204];
surveyed, ii. [185]
Yana River, the, i.
Yanimoto, ii.
Yefremov Kamen, i.
Yekargauls, i.
Yelmert, i.
Yelmert Land, i.
Yenisej, the, voyages of the
Fraser
and the
Empress
, up, i.
;
ascent of, in 1875, i. [387];
river territory, i. [372];
navigable, i. [373];
its banks, i. [377];
vegetation on, i. [381];
steamers on, i. [394];
discovered, ii. [160];
Russian navigation on, in former times, i. [243];
Russian sea, expeditions to, ii. [185];
Minin's voyages on, ii. [186];
later voyages to, i. [311]
Yenisej, mouth of the, map of, i.
;
formerly inhabited, i. [193];
winter at, i. [209]
Yettugin, ii.
,
,
Yii gate, the, ii.
Yinretlen, i.
Ymer
(steamer), i.
,
,
,
Yokohama, ii.
;
arrival at, ii. [295];
departure from, ii. [364]
Yokosuka, ii.
Yoldia Artica
, i.
Young, Sir Allen, ii.
Yugor Schar, i.
;
expedition passes, i. [171];
rules for sailing through, i. [172];
harbours in, i. [174];
origin of the name, i. [172];
Pet did not sail through, i. [228];
map of, i. [242]
Yukagires, ii.
Yukagir dwellings, remains of, on the New Siberian Islands, ii.
Z
Zaritza
(steamer), i.
Zeno, i.
Ziegler's map of the north, i.
Zivolka, A. K., i.
;
portrait, i. [284]
Zircon, ii.
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and
in the printed edition.
Vol I page x "Cape Schelagskog" changed to "Cape Schelagskoj" [ to match 4 other instances in text ]
Vol I page xiii "Sieveria" changed to "Sieweria" [ as in the title "Neu-entdecktes Sieweria, worinnen die Zobeln gefangen werden" confirmed on Internet, and one other instance in the text ]
Vol I page xxv "Ida Fallander" changed to "Ida Falander" [to match 5 other instances in text]
Vol I page xxvi "Yenissej" changed to "Yenisej" [ to match many instances in text ]
Vol I page 22 "Staduschin" changed to "Staduschin" [ to match 11 other instances in the text ]
Vol I page 43 "Middendorf" changed to "Middendorff" [ to match 19 other instances in text]
Vol I page 51 "Ptolemoei Cosmographia" changed to "Ptolemæi Cosmographia" [ confirmed on internet as the correct spelling, also correct in one other instance in the text ]
Vol I page 73 "Besimmanaja Bay" changed to "Besimannaja Bay" [to match 5 other instances in text]
Vol I page 219 "Cape Woronov" changed to "Cape Voronov" [ to match entry in index and confirmed on Internet ]
Vol I page 310 "Novya Zemlaya" changed to "Novaya Zemlya" [ over 200+ instances of "Novaya Zemlya" ]
Vol I page 315 "Sewernoe Sianie" changed to "Severnoe Sianie" [ to match 2 other instances in text ]
Vol I page 317 "Meywaldt" changed to "Meyenwaldt" [ to match 2 other instances in text, note also spelt as "Meyenvaldt" in the index]
Vol I page 377 "YEKISEJ" changed to "YENISEJ" [ to match many instances in text ]
Vol I page 397 "MIDDENDORF" changed to "MIDDENDORFF" [ to match 19 other instances in text ]
Vol I page 451 "Redogörese" changed to "Redogörelse" [ to match 4 other instances in the text ]
Vol II page xvi "Pribyloo" changed to "Pribylov" [ to match 4 other instances in the text ]
Vol II page 140 "ocasionally" changed to "occasionally"
Vol II page 183 "Dolgoj Island" changed to "Dolgoi Island" [to match index and 2 other instances in text]
Vol II page 249 "Hessal Gerritz" changed to "Hessel Gerritz" [Internet book text search gives both variations of surname see under differences of spelling below, but always "Hessel" as the first name of the author ]
Vol II page 432 "Pedrotalegalla" changed to "Pedrotalagalla" [ to match 2 other instances in text, also confirmed on Internet as correct spelling for this mountain]
Vol II page 447 "Nutschoitzin" changed "Nutschoitjin" [ to match other index entry and 6 instances in the text]
Vol II page 481 "Vlaming" changed to "Vlamingh" [ to match 8 other instances in text ]
Alternative spelling noticed, these remain unchanged as it is not obvious which is correct.
"Bruzewitz" In index and illustration, but "Brusewitz" in text
"Engehardt's" or "Engelhardt's"
"Hessel Gerritsz" or "Hessel Gerritz"
"Gusinnaja Semlja" or "Gusinnyja Semlja"
"Gwosdarev" in text, but "Gvosdarev" in index
"Cape Kamennoj" in text, but "Cape Kammennoj" in index
"Kolmogorsov" in text, but "Kolmogorzov" in index
"Krassilnikoff's" in text, but "Krassilinikoff" in index
"Labuan" in text, but "Labaan" in index
"Matvejev" in text, but "Matveyev" in index
"Meyenwaldt" in text, but "Meyenvaldt" in index
"Morgiouets" in text, but "Morgiovets" in index
"Mutnoi" in text, but "Mutnoj" in index
"Oiwake" in text, but "Oiwaki" in index
"Rotschitlen" in text, but "Rotschilten" in index
"Sarytchev" or "Sarytschev"
"Semenoffskoj" in text, but "Semenoffski" in index
"Gusinnaja Semlja" in text, but "Gusinnaya Semlya" in index
"Serebrenikoff" in text, but "Seribrenikoff" in index
"skuggsjá" in text, but "skuggjá" in index
"Sumiyashi" In list of illustrations, but "SUMIYOSHI" Caption on illustration"
"Tajmur river" or "Taimur river"
"Volodomir" in text, but "Volodimir" in index
"Yekargaules" in text, but "Yekargauls" in index
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