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Through Siberia

Note 5 — Chapter XLVIII · KAMCHATKA.

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They sailed round Cape Horn to Siberia, but met with foul weather, which delayed them for a whole season, and initiated their failure. Not having the means to return to Finland, they were getting their living as best they could. The commander of the Onon, Captain Stjerncreutz, was one of them. I discovered that he was a cousin of Miss Heijkel, my fellow-passenger in Finland in 1876, who, to help me in procuring a horse, introduced me to the family I have mentioned at Wasa. This was the third Finlander I chanced to meet in Siberia with whom I could claim a sort of acquaintance.

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