_Etlje_, no.
_Metschinka_, thanks.
_Ennen_, one.
_Nirak_, two.
_Nrok_, three.
_Nrak_, four.
_Metljingan_, five. ]

[Footnote 256: The King of Sweden has since ordered a gold medal to
be given to Wassili Menka in recognition of the fidelity with which
he executed the commission of carrying our letters to a Russian post
station. ]

[Footnote 257: See page 119. ]

END OF VOL. I.

THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA ROUND ASIA AND EUROPE. VOL II

[Illustration: Adolf Erik Nordenskioeld ]

[Illustration: His signature ]

THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA ROUND ASIA AND EUROPE
WITH A HISTORICAL REVIEW
OF PREVIOUS JOURNEYS ALONG THE NORTH COAST OF THE OLD WORLD

BY A.E. NORDENSKIOeLD

TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER LESLIE

_WITH FIVE STEEL PORTRAITS, NUMEROUS MAPS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS_

IN TWO VOLUMES--VOL II

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1881

CONTENTS OF VOL II

CHAPTER XI.

Hope of release at the new year--Bove's excursion to the open
water--Mild weather and renewed severe cold--Mercury frozen--Popular
lectures--Brusewitz's excursion to Najtskaj--Another despatch of
letters home--The natives' accounts of the state of the ice on the
coast of Chukch Land--The Chukches carry on traffic between Arctic
America and Siberia--Excursions in the neighborhood of winter
quarters--The weather during spring--The melting of the snow--The
aurora--The arrival of the migratory birds--The animal world of
Chukch Land--Noah Elisej's relief expedition--A remarkable fish--The
country clean of snow--Release--The North-East Passage achieved.

CHAPTER XII

The history, _physique_, disposition, and manners of the Chukches.

CHAPTER XIII

The development of our knowledge of the north coast of
Asia--Herodotus--Strabo--Pliny--Marco Polo--Herbertstein's
map--The conquest of Siberia by the Russians--Deschnev's
voyages--Coast navigation between the Lena and the Kolyma--Accounts
of islands in the Polar Sea and old voyages to them--The
discovery of Kamchatka--The navigation of the Sea of Okotsk is
opened by Swedish prisoners of war--The Great Northern
Expedition--Behring--Schalaurov--Andrejev's Land--The New
Siberian islands--Hedenstroem's expeditions--Anjou and
Wrangel--Voyages from Behring's Straits westward--Fictitious
Polar voyages.

CHAPTER XIV

Passage through Behring's Straits--Arrival at Nunamo--Scarce species
of seal--Rich vegetation--Passage to America--State of the
ice--Port Clarence--The Eskimo--Return to