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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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f this voyage we know only that Bruneiendeavoured without success to sail through Yugor Schar, and that hisvessel, heavily laden with furs, plates of mica, and rock-crystal, waswrecked on the way home at the mouth of the Petchora (Beschri/viughevander Samoyeden Landt in Tartarlen, &c. Amsterdam, 1612. S. MullersPhotolithographic Reproduction, 1878). The mica and rock-crystal wereundoubtedly brought from the Ural, as no useful plates of mica or largerock-crystals are foiuid in the region of the Petchora. Brunei then enteredthe Danish service. For we know that an Oliver Brunei during the reignof King Fredrik II. in Denmark offered to explore Greenland, and for thatpurpose in 1583 obtained the right to settle in Bergen and there enjoy sixyears freedom from taxes (Cf. Groenlands historiske Mindesmocrker, Copen-hagen, 1838, vol. iii. p. 666). C (lertt Vant Uoordcrfte^ \us.seAV, ^Samojedejv , aide ^iite^ocjtri landt : alsoo dot vojidt- li^usstiv af^hcttktnt, en door Isaac Massa. vertadt
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RUSSIAN MAP OF THE NORTH POLAR SEA FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE 17^ CENTURY, PUBLISHED in HOLLAND in 1612 BY ISAAC MASSA. v.) JAN IIUYGHEN VAN LINSCHOTEN. 181 Matotschkin Schar is often marked with some perversion of theword Kostin Schar. South of St. Laurens Bay, i in 70;°, Barents, on the ?lf^August, found upon a headland across erected, and in the neigh-bourhood of it three wooden buildings, the hull of a Russianvessel and several sacks of meal, and at the same place somegraves, all clearly remains of some Russian salmon-fishers. Onthe fgth August he arrived at Dolgoi Island, where he fell inwith the two other vessels from Zeeland and Enkhuizen thathad come thither shortly before. All the four vessels sailedback thence to Holland, arriving there in the middle ofSeptember. The narrative of this voyage closes with thestatement that Barents brought home with him a walrus, whichhad been fallen in with and killed on the drift-ice. Barentsduring this journey discovered and explored the nor

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