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of Andrée, but he showed great interest in his wonderful
flight to the north when it was sufficiently explained to
him. He told us that his people and other Dolgans during
the past summer had, as usual, been wandering on the
Taimyr peninsula, having followed the western coast of
Katanga Bay in search of mammoth-tusks, “so far north
that the earth became black (i.e. void of all vegetation) and
the wild reindeer ceased.” In some places they had seen
open water, but from the high mountains towards the west
“immense icebergs extended into the sea.” The chief had
been told that his ancestors long ago had travelled “for
several days northwards from Katanga Bay, until they
had come to a large bay (Thaddeus Bay?) which was filled
with ice.” His people had, during the last summer, met with
Samoyedes, who, with their herds of reindeer, had been
roaming about in the regions between the river Balaknà
and the Taimyr Lake, but they had not heard of any of
these having had any knowledge of the Andrée expedition,
or that they had observed anything unusual indicating
traces of it.
These Dolgans live mostly by trapping and by hunting
the wild reindeer, immense herds of which in autumn return
eastwards from the Taimyr, where they spend the summer.
In crossing the mountains east of the lower Katanga, these
are caught in traps or shot by the Dolgans.
The chief showed much interest in our expedition, and
in that of Andrée and his companions, which was the most
wonderful thing he had ever heard of.
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