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Assisted by his liberal friend, Mr Oscar Dickson, and supported by King Oscar the Second of Sweden, and M. Sibiriakoff, a Siberian landholder, Nordenskiold purchased the steam-whaler Vega a name now celebrated throughout the civilised world. She was equipped and manned under Government auspices, and provisioned for two years.
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