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... coast of Siberia , " Golovnin asked Von Wrangell to lead it . Stunned by this " flattering proposal , " he eagerly accepted . At the same time he was promoted to lieutenant . It was the Naval Ministry's plan to explore and survey the ...
... coast of Siberia , " Golovnin asked Von Wrangell to lead it . Stunned by this " flattering proposal , " he eagerly accepted . At the same time he was promoted to lieutenant . It was the Naval Ministry's plan to explore and survey the ...
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... coast on our right ; but a high promonto- ry being visible through the mist , we directed our course to it , and pitched our tent under the shelter of a steep bank , having made only 27 wersts , on ae- count of the loose and granular ...
... coast on our right ; but a high promonto- ry being visible through the mist , we directed our course to it , and pitched our tent under the shelter of a steep bank , having made only 27 wersts , on ae- count of the loose and granular ...
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... coast . We agreed with the Jakuti of Sredne Kolymsk for a sufficient number of horses , and for trustworthy guides acquainted with the country . The coast survey I intrusted to M. Mati- uschkin , and undertook that of the Kolyma myself ...
... coast . We agreed with the Jakuti of Sredne Kolymsk for a sufficient number of horses , and for trustworthy guides acquainted with the country . The coast survey I intrusted to M. Mati- uschkin , and undertook that of the Kolyma myself ...
Contents
rival of the English Traveller Captain Cochrane The | 87 |
CHAPTER V | 97 |
CHAPTER VI | 114 |
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Aldan animals Aniuj appeared arrived bank Bear Islands bears boat breeze Cape North Cape Schelagskoj coast cold consists continued Cossacks covered cross direction distance district dogs driftwood dymokuries east expedition fathoms feet fire fish formed fresh frozen greater Baranow Rock ground halted hills horses hummocks huts Indigirka inhabitants Irkuzk island Jakuti Jakuzk Jana journey Jukahiri kind Kirensk Kolyma Kosmin Kyber lakes land larch latitude Lena light longitude by reckoning Matiuschkin meridian altitude morning mountains mouth night Nishne Kolymsk noon northern obliged open water Ostrownoje ourselves party passed Pillar Island Polar Sea pood provision-sledges provisions quantity reached reindeer river roubles Russian schamans shelter shore Siberia side skin sledges snow sometimes soon spring Sredne Kolymsk stone-foxes stream Sucharnoje summer temperature tent thick tion train oil travelling tribes Tschuktschi Tundra valley weather wersts farther whole wind winter Wrangell