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(1901) [MARC] Author: Jonas Jonsson Stadling Translator: Francis Henry Hill Guillemard - Tema: Russia
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we ourselves were now pretty well tired out, but being
anxious to get over the tundras before the worst winter
storms set in, I resolved to stop only one night here and
start early on the following day. The chief of the place
said it was “eleven days’ journey with reindeer” from here
to Katanga, i.e. about 500 miles, but it was my intention,
if possible, to take a north-westerly course in order to meet
the natives roaming about the tundras on the coast of the
Arctic sea, near the mouth of Katanga Bay, and ascertain
whether they had observed any traces of Andrée’s party.

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my sledge on the anabar.


The people on the Anabar, I found, knew nothing
whatever about the Andrée expedition, although all the
natives of northern Siberia were said to have been informed
of it. Nor had any other of the natives between the Anabar

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