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World were attacked.[1] For a whole decade these
discoverers struggled with all the obstacles which a terrible
climate and the resources of a half developed country
obliged them to contend with. They surmounted these
obstacles. The expeditions were renewed, two, three,
yes, even four times. If the vessels were frozen in, they
were hauled upon shore the next spring, repaired, and the
expedition continued. And if these intrepid fellows were
checked in their course by masses of impenetrable ice,
they continued their explorations on dog sledges, which
here for the first time were employed in Arctic
exploration. Cold, scurvy, and every degree of discomfort
wrought sad havoc among them, but many survived the
long polar winter in miserable wooden huts or barracks.
Nowhere has Russian hardiness erected for itself a more
enduring monument.
It was especially the projecting points and peninsulas
in this region that caused these explorers innumerable
difficulties. These points and capes had hitherto been
unknown. The crude maps of this period represented
the Arctic coast of Siberia as almost a straight line. It
was first necessary for the navigators to send cartographers
to these regions, build beacons and sea-marks, establish
magazines, collect herds of reindeer, which, partly as an
itinerant food supply, and partly to be used as an eventual
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