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means of conveyance, followed along the coast with the
vessels, while here and there, especially on the Taimyr
peninsula, small fishing stations were established for
supplying the vessels.
In the summer of 1737 Malygin and Skuratoff crossed
the Kara Sea and sailed up the Gulf of Obi. In the
same year the able Ofzyn charted the coast between the
Obi and the Yenesei, but was reduced to the rank of a
common sailor, because in Berezov he had sought the
company of the exiled Prince Dolgoruki.
In the year previous, Pronchisheff all but succeeded
in doubling the Taimyr peninsula, and reached the
highest latitude (77° 29′) that had been reached by water
before the Vega expedition. But it was especially in the
second attempt, from 1738 to 1743, that the greatest
results were attained. The two cousins, Chariton and
Dmitri Laptjef, who were equipped anew and vested with
great authority, attacked the task of doubling the
Taimyr and Bering peninsulas with renewed vigor. By
extensive sledging expeditions, the former linked his
explorations to those undertaken by Minin and Sterlegoff
from the west, and his mate, Chelyuskin, in 1742,
planted his feet on the Old World’s most northerly point,
and thus relegated the story of a certain Jelmerland, said
to connect northern Asia with Novaia Zemlia, to that
lumber-room which contains so many ingenious
cartographical ideas. But even these contributions to science
were, perhaps, surpassed by those of Dmitri Laptjef. As
Lassenius’s successor he charted, in three summers, the
Siberian coast from the Lena to the great Baranoff Cliff,
a distance of thirty-seven degrees. On this coast, toward
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