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Title: The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Nordenskiöld, A. E. (Adolf Erik), 1832-1901 Leslie, Alexander
Subjects: Vega (Ship)
Publisher: New York, Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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ies. The continuation of Otheres narrative consists of a sketch ofthe Scandinavian peninsula, and of a journey which he under-took from his home towards the south. King Alfred then givesan account of the Dane, Wulfstans voyage in the Baltic. Thispart of the introduction to Orosius, however, has too remotea connection with my subject to be quoted in this historicalsketch. It appears from Otheres simple and very clear narrative that 1 In this case is meant by whale evidently the walrus, whose skin isstill used for lines by the Norwegian wah-us-hunters, by the Eskimo, andthe Chukchis. The skin of the true whale might probably be used forthe same purpose, although, on account of its thickness, perhaps scarcelywith advantage without the use of special tools for cutting it up. MAP OF NORTH EUROPE NicoLAi DoNis Editi ofPTOLEM/tl COSMOGRAPHI ULM_1482. ojnicMff.iKinlii&nwKTO fnuUitat»iiminCT\(iu«* The oolourin; of the Land, here added for the sake of distincKiess. is not in the Original.
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I.) THE OLDEST MAPS OF THE NORTH. 43 he undertook a veritable voyage of discovery in order to explorethe unknown lands and sea lying to the north-east. Thisvoyage was also very rich in results, as in the course of itthe northernmost part of Europe was circumnavigated. Norperhaps is there any doubt that during this voyage Otherepenetrated as far as to the mouth of the Dwina or at leastof the Mesen in the land of the Beormas.^ We learn fromthe narrative besides, that the northernmost part of Scandinaviawas already, though sparsely, peopled by Lapps, whose mode oflife did not differ much from tluit followed by their descendants,who live on the coast at the present day. The Scandinavian race first migrated to Finmark and settledthere in the 13th century, and from that period there wasnaturally spread abroad in the northern countries a greaterknowledge of those regions, which, however, was for a long timeexceedingly incomplete, and even in certain respects less correctthan Otheres. The ide

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