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 . vatethe land, though in the gardens at Yakutsk are grown pota-toes, cabbages, radishes, and turnips. Some products ofYakutsk industry are purchased by the Russians, particular-ly floor-cloths of white and colored felts, which are cut instrips and sewed together like mosaic. From the earliesttimes they have been able to procure and work for them-selves metal. The language of the Yakuts, which is largelyspoken by the Russians who live amo
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 . vatethe land, though in the gardens at Yakutsk are grown pota-toes, cabbages, radishes, and turnips. Some products ofYakutsk industry are purchased by the Russians, particular-ly floor-cloths of white and colored felts, which are cut instrips and sewed together like mosaic. From the earliesttimes they have been able to procure and work for them-selves metal. The language of the Yakuts, which is largelyspoken by the Russians who live among them, is one of theprincipal means by which we are led to assume their Turkishorigin, for Latham says their speech is intelligible at Con-stantinople, and their traditions (for literature they havenone) bespeak a southern origin. Strahlenberg calls these people pagans, but the latest 146 THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. writers call them Christians ; and the method of their con-version was, it is said, extraordinary ; for the Russian priestsnot making much headway against their superstitions, anukase was one day issued setting forth that the good and. NATIVE GIRLS OF YAKUTSK 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
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