[Footnote 173: The first account of this voyage was published in _Oefversigt af Svenska Vetenskaps-akademiens forhandlingar_, 1870, p. 111. ] [Footnote 174: _Athenoeum_, 1869, p. 498. Petermann's _Mittheilungen_, 1869, p. 391. ] [Footnote 175: Palliser's game consisted of 49 walruses, 14 Polar bears and 25 seals; that of the working hunters was many times greater. All the vessels which went from Tromsoe that year captured 805 walruses, 2,302 seals, 53 bears, &c. ] [Footnote 176: Sidoroff too started in 1869 on a north-east voyage in a steamer of his own, the _George_. However, he only reached the Petchora, and the statement that went the round of the press, that the _George_ actually reached the Ob, is thus one of the many mistakes which so readily find their way into the news of the day. ] [Footnote 177: Petermann's _Mittheilungen_, 1871, p. 97. Along with Ulve's, Mack's, and Quale's voyages, Petermann refers to a voyage round Novaya Zemlya by T. Torkildsen. In this case, however, Petermann was exposed to a possibly unintended deception. Torkildsen, who visited the Polar Sea for the first time in 1870, indeed made the voyage round Novaya Zemlya, but only as a rescued man on Johannesen's vessel. Torkildsen's own vessel, the _Alfa_, had been wrecked on the 13th July at the bottom of Kara Bay, after which the skipper and six men were saved by Johannesen, yet by no means so that Torkildsen, as is stated by Petermann, had the least command of the vessel that saved him. (Cf. _Tromsoe Stiftstidende_, 1871, No. 23.) ] [Footnote 178: _Tromsoe Stiftstidende_, 1871, No. 83; Petermann's _Mittheilungen_, 1872, p. 384. ] [Footnote 179: Cf. _The Three Voyages of William Barents_, by Gerrit de Veer, 2nd Edition, with an Introduction by Lieutenant Koolemaens Beynen. London, 1876 (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, No. 54). ] [Footnote 180: The sea in the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen on the east was on the other hand very open that year, so that it was possible for the same time to reach and circumnavigate the large island situated to the east of Spitzbergen, which had been seen in 1864 by Duner and me from the top of White Mount in the interior of Stor Fjord. ] [Footnote 181: Nor does space permit me to give an account of various expeditions, which indeed concerned Novaya Zemlya, but did not penetrate farther eastward than their predecessors; for instance, the Rosenthal expedition of 1871, in which the well-known African traveller and Spitzbergen voyager Baron von Heuglin, and the Norwegian botanist Aage Aagaard, took part as naturalists; Payer and Weyprecht's voyage of reconnaissance in the sea between Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya in 1871, &c. ] [Footnote 182: Kongl. _Svenska Vetenskaps-akademiens handlingar_, 1869. ]