CHAPTER XXII. 



A ROLL OF HONOR. 



"TTERKHOYANSK, situated on the Yana River, eastward 

 V from the Lena, is the name of one of the villages 

 which the men of the Jeannette passed through on their 

 circuitous journey from Bulun to Yakutsk, and it is also the 

 name of one of the districts into which the province of 

 Yakutsk is divided. The following are extracts from a 

 translation of the report made by the Ispravnik (chief man) 

 of this district to the Governor of Yakutsk, respecting the 

 arrival and reception of the strangers : 



" By searching for the strangers all the natives have done 

 all they had in their power to do. Mr. Ipatieff (aid to the 

 ispravnik) knew about the natives, and which of them had 

 done more than the others. Those who did the most were 

 named respectively as follows : The overlooker from Gigan- 

 sky Ulnf, Gregory Baishoff, who took the found strangers to 

 Bulun, showing them the way and giving them all necessary 

 provisions ; and Ipatieff had heard from the strangers how 

 much Gregory Baishoff had done for them. Candidate Con- 

 stantine Mohoploff was the man who took the two saved 

 sailors to Bulun from Bulcour, and accompanied Mr. Mel- 

 ville on all his searching to find the missing members of the 

 expedition and helped Mr. Melville very much. Then the 

 overlooker from Ywo Katurlinsky Nasleg, Wassili Bobrow- 

 sky, who brought the eleven strangers who were on Capo 

 Borkai to the Cape BykofTsky, and who gave them fresh pro- 

 visions to the people from his own stores. He guided Mr. 

 Melville to Simatsky Nasleg, on the Lena, through the wild- 

 erness. Then the two exiles, one of them Kusinah Eremoff, 

 from Gigansky Uluf, and Efim Kopiloff, from Ust-Lena. 



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