The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . a per-petual drizzling rain. The Aveather clears up in July, but as early as Augustthe night-frosts cover the earth with rime. Salmon, of which no less than THE TUNGUSI. 247 fourteen different species live in the Sea of Ochotsk, are the only food which theneighborhood affords; all other necessaries of life come from Jakutsk, and areof course enormously dear. Meat appears only from time to time on the ta-bles of the wealthier merchants, and bread is an article of luxury. No won-der
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . a per-petual drizzling rain. The Aveather clears up in July, but as early as Augustthe night-frosts cover the earth with rime. Salmon, of which no less than THE TUNGUSI. 247 fourteen different species live in the Sea of Ochotsk, are the only food which theneighborhood affords; all other necessaries of life come from Jakutsk, and areof course enormously dear. Meat appears only from time to time on the ta-bles of the wealthier merchants, and bread is an article of luxury. No won-der that the scurvy ravages every winter a place so ill-provisioned, and thatat the time when the first caravan of pack-horses is expected to cross the Al-dan Mountains, the people of Ochotsk, unable to restrain their impatience, goout a long way to meet it. As the former trade of the place has now no doubtbeen transferred to the settlements on the Amoor, it may well be supposedthat Ochotsk has lost most of its former inhabitants, who can only be con-oratulated on their change of residence. 248 THE POLAR Berings monument at tetropaulovsk. CHAPTER XXIT. GEORGE WILLIAM STELLER. His Birth.—Enters the Russian Service.—Scientific Journey to Kamchatka.—AccompatiJea Bering on liissecond Voyage of Discovery.—Lands on the Island of Kaiak.—Shameful Conduct of Bering.—Sliip-wreck on Bering Island.—Berings Death.—Return to Kamchatka.—Loss of Property.— the Siberian Authorities.—Frozen to Death at Tjunien. r^EORGE WILLIAi\I STELLER, one of tlie most distinginshed natuvaU^^ ists of the past century, Avas born at Winsheim, a small town in Fi-an-conia, in the year IVOO. After completing his studies at tlie universities ofWittenberg and Halle, he turned his thoughts to Russia, which, since the re-forms of Czar Peter the Great, and the protection whicli that monarch and hissuccessors afforded to German learning, had become the land of promise forall adve
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