372 THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



boat. First a cross was made from timbers one foot square, 

 hewn out of logs which had drifted down the river, and 

 erected on the crest of the hill. It was twenty-two feet high 

 and the cross-beam was twelve feet long. Around this cross 

 was built a box twenty-two feet long, six feet wide, and two 

 feet deep, located exactly on a north and south line. After 

 the bodies had been placed in the box it was covered with 

 plank. A ridge-pole sixteen feet long was then framed into 

 the cross five feet above the top of the box, and its ends 

 were supported by timbers sloping outward. A roof was 

 then formed by placing timbers side by side against the 

 ridge-poles and ends. The whole outside was then covered 

 with stones, and when completed it resembled a pyramidal 

 mound of stones surmounted by a cross. 



Before the cross was erected members of the search-party 

 engraved upon it an inscription, as follows : 



IN 



MEMORY 



OF 12 

 OF THE 



OFFICERS 



AND 



MEN 



OF 



THE ARCTIC STEAMER "JEANNETTE," 



WHO DIED OF STARVATION 

 IN THE LENA DELTA, OCTOBER, 1881. 



LIEUTENANT 



G. ^^'. DE LONG. 



DR. J. M. AMBLER. 



J. J. COLLINS. 



W. LEE. 



A. GORTZ. 



A. DRESSLER. 



H. H. ERICKSOK 



G. W. BO YD. 



N. IVERSON. 



H. H. KAACK. 



ALEXAI. 



AH SAM. 



Arrangements were subsequently made at Yakutsk to 



