O. Nordquist, Lieutenant in the Imperial Russian Regiment of Guards, interpreter, assistant zoologist........ ,, 20th May 1858 R. Nilsson, sailing-master ............. ,, 5th Jan. 1837 F.A. Pettersson, first engineer......... ,, 3rd July 1835 O. Nordstroem, second engineer........... ,, 24th Feb. 1855 C. Carlstroem, fireman .................. ,, 14th Dec. 1845 O. Ingelsson, fireman................... ,, 2nd Feb. 1849 O. Oeman, seaman........................ ,, 23rd April 1843 G. Carlsson, seaman..................... ,, 22nd Sep. 1843 C. Lundgren, seaman..................... ,, 5th July 1851 O. Hansson, seaman...................... ,, 6th April 1856 D. Asplund, boatswain, cook............. ,, 28th Jan. 1827 C.J. Smaolaenning, boatswain........... ,, 27th Sep. 1839 C. Levin, boatswain, steward............ ,, 24th Jan. 1844 P.M. Lustig, boatswain.................. ,, 22nd April 1845 C. Ljungstrom, boatswain................ ,, 12th Oct. 1845 P. Lind, boatswain...................... ,, 15th Sep. 1856 P.O. Faeste, boatswain.................. born 23rd Sep. 1856 S. Andersson, carpenter................. ,, 3rd Sep. 1847 J. Haugan, walrus-hunter[16]............ ,, 23rd Jan. 1825 P. Johnsen, walrus-hunter............... ,, 15th May 1845 P. Sivertsen, walrus-hunter............. ,, 2nd Jan. 1853 Th. A. Bostrom, assistant to the scientific men..................................... ,, 21st Sep. 1857 There was also on board the _Vega_ during the voyage from Tromsoe to Port Dickson, as commissioner for Mr. Sibiriakoff, Mr. S.J. Serebrenikoff, who had it in charge to oversee the taking on board and the landing of the goods that were to be carried to and from Siberia in the _Fraser_ and _Express_. These vessels had sailed several days before from Vardoe to Chabarova in Yugor Schar, where they had orders to wait for the _Vega_. The _Lena_, again, the fourth vessel that was placed at my disposal, had, in obedience to orders, awaited the _Vega_ in the harbour of Tromsoe, from which port these two steamers were now to proceed eastwards in company. After leaving Tromsoe, the course was shaped at first within the archipelago to Maosoe, in whose harbour the _Vega_ was to make some hours' stay, for the purpose of posting letters in the post-office there, probably the most northerly in the world. But during this time so violent a north-west wind began to blow, that we were detained there three days.