Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - XX. Across the Taimyr Peninsula
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has been proofread at least once.
(diff)
(history)
Denna sida har korrekturlästs minst en gång.
(skillnad)
(historik)
Her sons told us that at the next two camps were “bad
people”, and that we should have great difficulty in getting
reindeer and people for continuing our journey.
Although it was difficult for them to be away from their
herds, they eventually promised to transport our party
to some place where we should find good people and
reindeer. We found their statements with regard to the “bad
people” to be well founded. At the camps spoken of,
where we had to spend the night, there was unspeakable
poverty and dirt.
Having completed our 75 miles on a south-westerly course,
we turned once more north, and zigzagged from camp to
camp over an undulating tundra, intersected by labyrinths of
crevasses and ravines, which very much hindered our
progress. Passing over the lake of Boganida, we came to the
Nosovaya tundra, in crossing which our course lay in a
more or less westerly direction, following the water-divide
between the Katanga to the south-east, the Taimyr river to
the north, and the Piasina to the west, and keeping about
125 miles north of the forest-line as marked on the maps.
With the exception perhaps of some stray merchant’s agent,
no civilised people have ever travelled over this part of
the tundra, at all events not since the days of Middendorff.
His expedition, however, went from the Yenisei to the
Taimyr Lake, where he lost his boat and narrowly escaped
with his life. Merchants, officials, and other travellers follow
a more southerly route, through the forest-region.
This Nosovaya tundra, the highest tundra on the Taimyr,
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
