Hope of release at the new year--Bove's excursion to the open
water--Mild weather and renewed severe cold--Mercury frozen--Popular
lectures--Brusewitz's excursion to Najtskaj--Another despatch of
letters home--The natives' accounts of the state of the ice on the
coast of Chukch Land--The Chukches carry on traffic between Arctic
America and Siberia--Excursions in the neighborhood of winter
quarters--The weather during spring--The melting of the snow--The
aurora--The arrival of the migratory birds--The animal world of
Chukch Land--Noah Elisej's relief expedition--A remarkable fish--The
country clean of snow--Release--The North-East Passage achieved.