n. 1844

P.M. Lustig, boatswain.................. ,, 22nd April 1845

C. Ljungstrom, boatswain................ ,, 12th Oct. 1845

P. Lind, boatswain...................... ,, 15th Sep. 1856

P.O. Faeste, boatswain.................. born 23rd Sep. 1856

S. Andersson, carpenter................. ,, 3rd Sep. 1847

J. Haugan, walrus-hunter[16]............ ,, 23rd Jan. 1825

P. Johnsen, walrus-hunter............... ,, 15th May 1845

P. Sivertsen, walrus-hunter............. ,, 2nd Jan. 1853

Th. A. Bostrom, assistant to the scientific
men..................................... ,, 21st Sep. 1857

There was also on board the _Vega_ during the voyage from Tromsoe to
Port Dickson, as commissioner for Mr. Sibiriakoff, Mr. S.J.
Serebrenikoff, who had it in charge to oversee the taking on board
and the landing of the goods that were to be carried to and from
Siberia in the _Fraser_ and _Express_. These vessels had sailed
several days before from Vardoe to Chabarova in Yugor Schar, where
they had orders to wait for the _Vega_. The _Lena_, again, the
fourth vessel that was placed at my disposal, had, in obedience to
orders, awaited the _Vega_ in the harbour of Tromsoe, from which
port these two steamers were now to proceed eastwards in company.

After leaving Tromsoe, the course was shaped at first within the
archipelago to Maosoe, in whose harbour the _Vega_ was to make some
hours' stay, for the purpose of posting letters in the post-office
there, probably the most northerly in the world. But during this
time so violent a north-west wind began to blow, that we were
detained there three days.

Maosoe is a little rocky island situated in 71 deg. N.L.,
thirty-two kilometres south-west from North Cape, in a region
abounding in fish, about halfway between Bred Sound and Mageroe
Sound. The eastern coast of the island is indented by a bay, which
forms a well-protected harbour. Here, only a few kilometres south of
the northernmost promontory of Europe, are to be found, besides a
large number of fishermen's huts, a church, shop, post-office,
hospital, &c.; and I need scarcely add, at least for the benefit of
those who have travelled in the north of Norway, several friendly,
hospitable families in whose society we talked away many hours of
our involuntary stay in the neighbourhood. The inhabitants of course
live on fish. All agriculture is impossible here. Potatoes have
indeed sometimes yielded