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little of the land or the native races. The exile and the
“Gold-Baron” are neither sons of the soil, nor even the
most interesting features of it. It is from those who leave
the highways for the byways that we learn most, and as
Mr. Stadling’s journeys led him not only into little-known
districts, but over the far northern tundras of the Taimyr
which have never before been traversed by civilised man,
he stands in no need of editorial apologies. A word or
two, however, is perhaps permissible upon the author
himself and the motives of his journey.
Well known in his own country, Sweden, as a traveller
and sociologist, Mr. Stadling in the course of his
wanderings has made himself acquainted with many lands, but it
is Russia which appears always to have had the greatest
fascination for him. As the representative of various
philanthropists in America and Sweden he coöperated with the
Tolstoy family in fighting the famine of 1892, and has
visited the country on several other occasions, making
himself acquainted with the language and the people, and
thus equipping himself in the best possible manner for the
journey of which this volume is the record.
When Andrée first contemplated his hazardous attempt
to reach the Pole by balloon, Mr. Stadling accompanied
him to the north, and again in the following year, when
he witnessed his departure. As the months passed away,
and no tidings of the explorer came to relieve the anxiety
of his friends, it was resolved that search should be made
along the Siberian coast-line, and with this object in view
the author undertook, at the request of the Swedish
Geographical Society, to proceed thither, and see if any news
of the expedition could be obtained from the nomadic
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