Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long . ccident was just at night, when, in passing arounda steep place, we were thrown, with one traveler whowas ahead, with sleds and deer, down a gully some twentyfeet, in a promiscuous heap at the bottom. During the daywe passed three trains of 113 pack-horses, loaded with storesand bound for the settlements on the Kolyma River. I paid a brief visit to one of three skin huts of some wan-dering Tunguses, whom I noticed in traveling along. Th
Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long . ccident was just at night, when, in passing arounda steep place, we were thrown, with one traveler whowas ahead, with sleds and deer, down a gully some twentyfeet, in a promiscuous heap at the bottom. During the daywe passed three trains of 113 pack-horses, loaded with storesand bound for the settlements on the Kolyma River. I paid a brief visit to one of three skin huts of some wan-dering Tunguses, whom I noticed in traveling along. These 340 THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. people are in stature and appearance like other settlers far-ther north. Their habitations are made of poles lashedtogether and covered with deer-skins with the hair was made on the ground in the center, and the smokewas allowed to escape through a hole at the top of the with flaps of skin were at each side, but one hadto stoop and crawl in when desiring to enter. They hadnumerous fine-looking reindeer, with some dogs and sleds,scattered around their habitations. There were some twenty. EEINDEEE TONGUSES SUmiER TENT. men, women and children, old and young. They were thefirst of these wandering Tunguses that I ever saw, and likemost of the others were not backward about begging, andparticularly for tobacco. They extended their hands, andsaid in the most beseeching manner, Tebac ! tebac ! Late on the night of Monday, December 12th, we reacheda stansea called Ouldan, and routed out the inhabitants there-of, including fleas, multitudes of cockroaches, and other ver-min, and obtained a little rest. The next morning we startedoff with five sleds—three with horses attached, and two har-nessed to bulls. The sleds in use here were similar in shape SIGHTS ALONG THE ROAD. 341 to the deer sleds which we had been using, but broader, andthose which the horses dragged were rude apologies forsleighs. These horses were drive
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