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Title: 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
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Newcomb, Raymond Lee
Subjects: De Long, George W. (George Washington), 1844-1881 Jeannette (Ship) Jeannette Expedition (1879-1881)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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vatethe land, though in the gardens at Yakutsk are grown potatoes, 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
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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 entitled to all the privileges of the rest of his children. Success attended the measure. The new Christians showed perfect sincerity in the adoption of their novel faith, and the Russian priests have established their sway over the Yakut race, THE ASIATIC POLE OF COLD. 14T though amongst the outlying portion a lingering belief in Shamanism still survives. The town of Yakutsk has a population of about 5,000 persons, some of whom are political exiles. All the Russian inhabitants 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 government buildings, the cathedral and churches, the wooden houses of the Russians, and also the less pretentious winterdwellings of the Yakuts, and even t

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