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Excerpt from The Vegetation of the Siberian-Mongolian Frontiers: The Sayansk Region
It may be useful, in view of the localities mentioned later on and the following general survey of the character of the vegetation, to give in the sequel a brief account of the travelling route of the expedition. On the annexed map only to be regarded as a rough and very imperfect sketch, the route is marked out by a red line. This sketch has been drawn from a Russian map in all essentials based only upon the state ments of the natives. This country being mostly uninhabited and unknown, there are only few geographical names to which the local designations are referable.
The four Norwegian members of the expedition, at the begining of May 1914, proceeded by the Siberian railway to K r a s n o y a r s k, on the Yenisei, and further on up the river in a ferry-boat about 500 wersts southwards, to the small town of Min u sin 5 k, where we arrived on the 29th of May. Minusinsk, the outpost of civilization in those regions, where the last post office and the last telegraph station are to be found, became the real starting point of the expedition. At that time of the year, however, it was quite impossible to advance further southwards owing to the masses of snow in the Sayansk mountains, and the immense areas of swamp formed during the melting-time in the subalpine virgin forests in the lower ranges of those mountains, utterly prevented any attempt to pene trate into these desolate, uninhabited and pathless wooded regions. During the. First month, while we were waiting for the Sayansk range growing passable after the spring thaw. We made an excursion into the steppes along the r i v e r A b a k a n, one of the largest tributaries of the Yenisei in those regions. We started from Minusinsk on June 2ud in a couple of canoes, in which we had packed up what was needed for the journey, the rest of our luggage being left behind. In order to lighten the transport, we intended to stick to the rivers and undertake from these shorter and longer lateral excursions into the steppes.
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It may be useful, in view of the localities mentioned later on and the following general survey of the character of the vegetation, to give in the sequel a brief account of the travelling route of the expedition. On the annexed map only to be regarded as a rough and very imperfect sketch, the route is marked out by a red line. This sketch has been drawn from a Russian map in all essentials based only upon the state ments of the natives. This country being mostly uninhabited and unknown, there are only few geographical names to which the local designations are referable.
The four Norwegian members of the expedition, at the begining of May 1914, proceeded by the Siberian railway to K r a s n o y a r s k, on the Yenisei, and further on up the river in a ferry-boat about 500 wersts southwards, to the small town of Min u sin 5 k, where we arrived on the 29th of May. Minusinsk, the outpost of civilization in those regions, where the last post office and the last telegraph station are to be found, became the real starting point of the expedition. At that time of the year, however, it was quite impossible to advance further southwards owing to the masses of snow in the Sayansk mountains, and the immense areas of swamp formed during the melting-time in the subalpine virgin forests in the lower ranges of those mountains, utterly prevented any attempt to pene trate into these desolate, uninhabited and pathless wooded regions. During the. First month, while we were waiting for the Sayansk range growing passable after the spring thaw. We made an excursion into the steppes along the r i v e r A b a k a n, one of the largest tributaries of the Yenisei in those regions. We started from Minusinsk on June 2ud in a couple of canoes, in which we had packed up what was needed for the journey, the rest of our luggage being left behind. In order to lighten the transport, we intended to stick to the rivers and undertake from these shorter and longer lateral excursions into the steppes.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Henrik Printz
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