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THROUGH SIBERIA.
CHAPTER I.
TO THE GATE OF SIBERIA.
The Object of our Journey — Polar Expeditions of 1898 — The
Vega-Stipendium and our Party — In St. Petersburg — The Crowding at
the Gate — Emigration Statistics — Talks with the Mujiks.
At the beginning of the year 1898 I expressed to the
chairman of the Swedish Anthropological and Geographical
Society, Baron Nordenskjöld, my opinion that something
ought to be done by my countrymen towards the search for
Andrée in northern Siberia, pointing out the following reasons
for the despatch of an expedition. During the summer of
1898 the polar basin would be surrounded by a chain of
various expeditions with the most northern limits of the
accessible parts of the Arctic Ocean and islands as their goal.
Large and well-equipped scientific expeditions were bound for
the north-west and the north-east of Greenland (a Danish
expedition to the former and Sverdrup and Peary to the
latter), for Spitsbergen (one Russian and two Swedish
expeditions), and for Franz Joseph’s Land (Wellman’s and Prof.
Nathorst’s expeditions); a large number of whalers were
about to cruise in the seas between Jan Mayen and Novaya
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