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 . UTSK IN WINTER COSTUME. loyal nation of the Yakuts were thought worthy to enter,and were consequently admitted into, the Russian Church,to become a part of the Czars Christian family, and entitledto all the privileges of the rest of his children. Success at-tended the measure. The new Christians showed perfectsincerity in the adoption of their novel faith, and the Rus-sian priests have established their sway over the Yakut race, THE ASI
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 . UTSK IN WINTER COSTUME. loyal nation of the Yakuts were thought worthy to enter,and were consequently admitted into, the Russian Church,to become a part of the Czars Christian family, and entitledto all the privileges of the rest of his children. Success at-tended the measure. The new Christians showed perfectsincerity in the adoption of their novel faith, and the Rus-sian priests have established their sway over the Yakut race, THE ASIATIC POLE OF COLD. 14T though amongst the outlying portion a lingering belief inShamanism still survives. The town of Yakutsk has a population of about 5,000 per-sons, some of whom are political exiles. All the Russianinhabitants might well be considered exiles, for they areover 5,000 miles from St. Petersburg. The town presents acurious medley of dwellings, for there are seen the govern-ment buildings, the cathedral and churches, the woodenhouses of the Russians, and also the less pretentious winterdwellings of the Yakuts, and even their summer YAKUTSK IN OUR DAYS. The cathedral is built of stone, and dedicated to , and there are in the town some half-dozen churchesin which parts, or all, of the service is performed in theYakut language. The chief ecclesiastic is Dionysius, Bishopof Yakutsk and Viluisk, who has in his hyperborean diocese49 churches and chapels, and one monastery containing adozen monks. According to Sir Edward Brewster the town of Yakutskis near the Asiatic pole of cold—one of the two coldest 148 THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. places on the globe. The mean temperature of the air Fahrenheit. At times the cold reaches 70° below zero,and mercury is frozen for one-sixth of the year. A warmsummer follows the cold winter; the ground is then thawedthree feet deep, and tliough the crops rest on perpetuallyfrozen strata, yet they produce
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