MR. JACKSON'S TRAVELS. 1<>3 



who was badly run down, and Jack Cole, the boatswain of 

 the Jeannette, whose mind became unbalanced during the 

 retreat to the coast. 



Just about the time when Danenhower's party left Ya- 

 kutsk to travel westward, another traveler, Mr. Jackson, 

 special courier and correspondent of the New York Herald, 

 started from Paris for Eastern Siberia, to meet the survivors 

 of the Jeannette expedition, and thence to proceed to Yakutsk 

 or to the mouth of the Lena, if advisable, to assist in the 

 search for the missing men. 



Mr. Jackson arrived at St. Petersburg on the evening of 

 January 12th, which was the new year's eve of the Russians. 

 At this city he received every attention and much assistance 

 from General Ignatieff, Minister of the Interior, and from 

 General Anutschin, Governor-General of Eastern Siberia, 

 who was passing the winter in St. Petersburg. He was fur- 

 nished with a crown pordorhosna, a document carried by 

 all high officials traveling on Russian post-routes, and it 

 irave him the right to demand horses at the stations in 



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preference to the ordinary traveler. The following is a 

 translation thereof : 



BY COMMAND OF HlS IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE EMPEROR 



ALEXANDER ALEXANDRA) VICH, 

 Supreme Ruler of all the Rusaias, 



&c., &c., <fec. 



From St. Petersburg to Irkutsk and return. 

 The Special Correspondent of the NEW YORK HERALD shall 

 be given houses up to the number of five without delay, to be 

 jmid for according to the fixed tariff.. 



Given at St. Petersburg January 4th (Russian style), 1882. 



For the Chief of the Chancellery of the Government of 

 Irkutsk, [Seal.] 



[Seal.] GOREW. 



Mr. Jackson also received from the Governor-General an 

 open letter, which read as follows : 



" The bearer of this, Mr. J. P. Jackson, leaves St. Petersburg 



