The life and voyages of Joseph Wiggins; modern discoverer of the Kara Sea route to Siberia, based on his journals and letters (1907) (14783005343)

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Title: The life and voyages of Joseph Wiggins; modern discoverer of the Kara Sea route to Siberia, based on his journals & letters
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Henry
Subjects: Wiggins, Joseph, 1832-1905
Publisher: London Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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er brought from Siberia,through the Kara Sea, to this country. Theexperience of the voyage fully verified Wigginscalculations, and solved the problem of carryingon ocean commerce with the Obi. The wheatbrought home proved, on analysis, to be evenbetter than Indian wheat. Whilst in the Obi Gulf, Wiggins met theHamburg steamer, Neptune, which was bound onthe same errand as the Waj^kivoiih. By his aidthe Neptune was carried over the shallows. Shewas then loaded with wheat and taken back toHamburg in safety. She was commanded byCaptain Rasmussen, and sent out by HerrBartning, of Hamburg, co-operating with HerrFunck, a merchant of Barnaul, a town in theGovernment of Tomsk. Captain Wiggins was the recipient of manycongratulatory letters on the completion of his\successful venture. One of the most acceptableof them came from his friend and brother-explorer,Lieutenant Weyprecht. I most sincerely con-gratulate you, he wrote, on your splendid successof this year. You are certainly the first who
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IX ) THE EXPRESS 193 pointed out the possibility of sea-communicationwith the Obi and the Yenesei—or, at least, thefirst who undertook to show it. I am quite surethat, not every year, but nearly every year thesame voyage can be performed. . . . Experienceand comparison of different years and differentplaces have convinced me that, whenever one partof the Arctic Sea is free from ice, there exists anaccumulation of ice in another part. The moreopen the sea is on the western side, the more willit probably be closed in the easterly direction. . . . I am very glad that your disinterested en-deavours have been rewarded finally with distinctsuccess. I hope also that your pecuniary sacrificesin some measure will be compensated. It has been mentioned that one of the Captainsideas was to get ships built at Tinmen or atTobolsk, load them with Siberian produce, andtake them direct to England. A demonstrationof the feasibihty of this idea took place soon afterhe reached Lonrv^n in the Wai^kworth