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that few of them could sleep that night until the early hours, 

 for pleasure and excitement. Lieutenant Danenhower I 

 found with his eyes bandaged and strictly forbidden by his 

 doctor to use his sight, so I spent an hour and a half reading 

 to him the messages of love sent to him by friends and 

 relatives from the Western land. 



The party have received a kindly welcome from the peo- 

 ple of Irkutsk, and have been frequently invited to accept 

 pleasant courtesies and hospitalities. Poor Jack Cole is 

 carefully attended to by his comrades in turns, and a Cos- 

 sack soldier watches by him night and day. When I met 

 him he immediately embraced me, as he does all his friends, 

 and said he was glad I had come, for he was just about to 

 start out for the Herald office. Poor fellow ! He lost his 

 reason during the retreat from the crushed exploring vessel, 

 and his mind is wandering far off. At first, after landing, 

 he was inclined to be quarrelsome ; then he began to invent 

 mysterious machines, the last of which was a winking piano 

 filled with boys and girls ; but after my arrival he became 

 possessed of the idea that he was in New York, and when he 

 goes out (under safe conduct), he says he is going to the 

 Herald office ; and when he comes back from his daily ride 

 he informs the lieutenant that he was not able to get his 

 bearings straight. So Lieutenant Danenhower bids him be 

 of good cheer, and tells him that he has the chart of the 

 route in his pocket, and will bring him safely to port in 

 good time. 



In a, darkened room of the house of M. Strekofski, I have 

 spent the day in taking down a portion of Lieutenant 

 Danenhower' s narrative of the voyage of the ill-fated Jean- 

 nette. The lieutenant was not an eye-witness of all the 

 events about which he speaks. Struck, about a year after 

 the vessel left San Francisco, with an affection of the left 

 eye, by which the right one was sympathetically affected, he 

 was confined to his darkened berth for a period of six 

 months, during which time he underwent thirteen operations, 

 and for a year, until the time of the disaster, indeed, he was 



