Die Reise der Vega rund um Asien und Europa; mit einem historischen Rückblick von früheren Fahrten entlang der Nordküste der Alten Welt Chukch ndents der Halbinsel ein littlesouth der kleinste Teil des Behrings wird Straße. Es war myintention in diesem Fjord so lange wie möglich zu verankern, in Orderto geben dem Naturforscher der Vega Expedition ein opportunityof machen Bekanntschaft mit den natürlichen Bedingungen von Teil XIV] KNAPPE ART DER DICHTUNG. 563 Der Chukch Land, das ist mehr von der Natur benachteiligten als thebare Küste vollständig geöffnet zu den Winden des PolarSea, die wir bisher besucht hatten.

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The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ndents the Chukch peninsula a littlesouth of the smallest part of Behrings Straits. It was myintention to anchor in this fjord as long as possible, in orderto give the naturalists of the Vega expedition an opportunityof making acquaintance with the natural conditions of a part XIV.] SCARCE SPECIES OF SEAL. 563 of Chukch Land which is more favoured by nature than thebare stretch of coast completely open to the winds of the PolarSea, which we hitherto had visited. I would willingly havestayed first for some hours at Diomede Island, the market-placefamed among the Polar tribes, situated in the narrowest part ofthe Straits, nearly half-way between Asia and America, andprobably before the time of Columbus a station for traffic be-tween the Old and the New Worlds. But such a delay wouldhave been attended with too great difficulty and loss of time inconsequence of the dense fog which prevailed here on theboundary between the warm sea free from drift-ice and the coldsea filled with drift-ice.. SEAL FROM THE BEHRING SEA. llistriophoca fasciata, Zimiii. Even the high mountains on the Asiatic shore were stillwrapped in a thick mist, from which only single mountain-summits now and then appeared. Next the vessel largefields of drift-ice were visible, on which here and there flocksof a beautifully marked species of seal {Histriophoca fasciata, Zimm.) had settled. Between the pieces of ice sea-birdsswarmed, mostly belonging to other species than those whichare met with in the European Polar seas. The ice was fortu-nately so broken up that the Vega could steam forward at fullspeed to the neighbourhood of St. Lawrence Bay, where the 0 0 2 564 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. coast was surrounded by some more compact belts of ice, whichhowever were broken through with ease. First, in the mouthof the fjord itself impenetrable ice was met with, completelyblo

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