the
11th September. The _Utrennaja Saria_ arrived at Christiania on the
31st October, at Gothenburg on the 15th November, passed Motala on
the 20th, reached Stockholm on the 23rd November and St. Petersburg
on the 3rd December. Everywhere in Scandinavia the gallant seamen
met with the heartiest reception. Their vessel was the first that
sailed from the town of Yenisejsk to Europe, and is still, when this
is being written, the only one.

[Illustration: GUSTAF ADOLF NUMMELIN. Born at Viborg in 1853. ]

The _Dawn_ is 56 feet long, 14 feet beam, and draws 6 feet of water.
Aft there is a little cabin in which there is scant space for three
men. Cooking is done in the fore. The cargo consisted of a small
quantity of graphite, fish, furs, and other samples of the products
of Siberia.

The vessel was manned by Captain Schwanenberg, the mates Nummelin
and Meyenwaldt, and two exiled criminals, who in this unexpected way
returned to their native country. I take it for granted that by the
rare nautical exploit they took part in, they there won forgiveness
for former offences.

[Illustration: THE SLOOP UTRENNAJA SARIA. ]

[Footnote 159: Compare: "The names of the places that the Russes
sayle by, from Pechorskoie Zauorot to Mongozey" (_Purchas_, III. p.
539): "The voyage of Master Josias Logan to Pechora, and his
wintering there with Master William Pursglove and Marmaduke Wilson,
Anno 1611" (_loc. cit._ p. 541): "Extracts taken out of two letters
of Josias Logan from Pechora, to Master Hakluyt, Prebend of
Westminster" (_loc. cit._ p. 546): "Other obseruations of the sayd
William Pursglove" (_loc. cit._ p. 550). The last paper contains
good information regarding the Obi, Tas, Yenisej, Pjaesina, Chatanga,
and Lena. ]

[Footnote 160: The stringent regulations regarding fasting of the
Russians, especially the Old Believers, if they be literally
observed, form an insuperable obstacle to the colonisation of
high-northern regions, in which, to avoid scurvy, man requires an
abundant supply of fresh flesh. Thus, undoubtedly, religious
prejudices against certain kinds of food caused the failure of the
colony of Old Believers which was founded in 1767 on Kolgujev
Island, in order that its members might undisturbed use their old
church books and cross themselves in the way they considered most
proper. The same cause also perhaps conduced to the failure of the
attempts which are said to have been made after the destruction of
Novgoro