Identifier: inlenadeltanarra01melv (find matches)
Title: In the Lena Delta; a narrative of the search for Lieut.-Commander De Long and his companions
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Melville, George W. (George Wallace), 1841-1912 Philips, M. (Melville), ed
Subjects: Greely relief expedition. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ouble the time re-quired in going from Belun to Verkeransk. The lasttwo hundred and fifty or three hundred versts had beenespecially tedious, and the Yakuts, living in their cow-stables, incredibly disgusting. The stancias were closetogether, not more than twenty or thirty versts apart;and we passed through several deserted villages of fromtwenty to thirty yaurtas. I asked Penavitch why theywere deserted, and he said the inhabitants had all diedof small-pox. I was driven direct to the Balogan Americanski, whereMr. Danenhower and the sailors were lodged. The bal-ogan was a government house, for the use of which Ipaid a small weekly sum, and was located across the wayfrom the Guestnitsa Hotel, kept by Madame Lempert,who fed the party at the daily rate of one rouble apiece.I found all the men enjoying themselves greatly, dressedin tight-fitting boots, white shirts, and choker collars.They seemed comfortable and happy, and were alreadyon visiting terms with the inhabitants. Many, too, had
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AT YAKUTSK. 273 sweethearts, and, I fear, had they stayed much longersome would have had wives. Poor Jack Cole, I wasgrieved to see, had lost his mind entirely, but he was inthe best of spirits, and told me that he had a body-ser-vant now, and intended to marry Queen Victoria. I learned from Mr. Danenhower that when theyreached Yakutsk, they were first driven, as is customaryupon the arrival of strangers, to the police station; buthe informed the police master who he was, and demandedan audience of General Tschernaieff, which was grantedat once; Dr. Capello, the district physician and inspectorof hospitals, acting as interpreter. The general receivedhim cordially, provided him with everything he wished,or that the place could afford; quartered the men atthe government house, and placed them to board withMadame Lempert, beside loaning money from his pri-vate purse for the use of the party. He had also in-sisted that Mr. Danenhower should dine with him everyafternoon at two oclock; and

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