arrative. ]

[Footnote 52: Writings on these voyages are exceedingly numerous.
An account of them was published for the first time in Hakluyt,
_The principael Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English
Nation, &c._, London, 1589; _Ordinances, King Edward's Past, &c._,
p. 259; _Copy of Sir Hugh Willoughby's Journal, with a List of all
the Members of the Expedition_, p. 265; _Clement Adams' Account of
Chancelor's Voyage_, p. 270, &c. The same documents were afterwards
printed in Purchas' _Pilgrimage_, iii. p. 211. For those who wish to
study the literature of this subject further, I may refer to Fr. von
Adelung, _Kritisch-literaerische Uebersicht der Reisenden in Russland_,
St. Petersburg and Leipzig, 1846, p. 200; and L. Hamel,
_Tradesrunt der Aeltere 1618 in Russland_, St. Petersburg and
Leipzig, 1847. ]

CHAPTER II.

Departure from Maosoe--Gooseland--State of the Ice--
The Vessels of the Expedition assemble at Chabarova--
The Samoyed town there--The Church--Russians and Samoyeds--
Visit to Ohabarova in 1875--Purchase of Samoyed Idols--
Dress and Dwellings of the Samoyeds--Comparison of the
Polar Races--Sacrificial Places and Samoyed Grave on
Vaygats Island visited--Former accounts of the Samoyeds--
Their place in Ethnography.

The _Vega_ was detained at Maosoe by a steady head wind, rain, fog,
and a very heavy sea till the evening of the 25th July. Though the
weather was still very unfavourable, we then weighed anchor,
impatient to proceed on our voyage, and steamed out to sea through
Mageroe Sound. The _Lena_ also started at the same time, having
received orders to accompany the _Vega_ as far as possible, and,
in case separation could not be avoided, to steer her course to the
point, Ohabarova in Yugor Schar, which I had fixed on as the
rendezvous of the four vessels of the expedition. The first night,
during the fog that then prevailed, we lost sight of the _Lena_,
and did not see her again until we had reached the meeting place.

The course of the _Vega_ was shaped for South Goose Cape. Although,
while at Tromsoe, I had resolved to enter the Kara Sea through Yugor
Schar, the most southerly of the sounds which lead to it--so
northerly a course was taken, because experience has shown that in
the beginning of summer so much ice often drives backwards and
forwards in the bay between the west coast of Vaygats Island and the
mainland, that navigation in these water