THE MAUSOLEUM ON THE LENA. 



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season of the year. Therefore, I will convey the people to 

 a proper place on the bank of the Lena, and have them in- 

 terred. In the meantime I will prosecute the search for 

 the second cutter with all diligence, as the weather may 

 permit. The weather has been so bad that we have been 

 able to travel but one day in four, lint hope for better 

 weather as spring advances." 



The first cutter party, when it reached land, consisted of 

 fourteen persons. Nindermann and Xoros escaped the fate 

 of their comrades; Erickson and Alexai, who died first, 

 were buried in the river ; and the remaining ten DeLong, 

 Ambler, Collins, Lee, (!orix. Dressier, Knack. Iverson, Boyd, 

 and Ah Sam were carried about thirty miles to the south- 

 west from where they were found, to the top of a hill of 

 solid rock 300 feet high, and laid at resi by their devoted 

 shipmates and sympathizing natives. 



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TOMB OF THE LOST EXPLORERS. 



The tomb or mausoleum in which the bodies were de- 

 posited was constructed of the lumber of a broken-up flat- 



