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the Kolyma. The journey took seven days. In the night following 

 the seventh day the river froze up while we were still forty miles 

 from our goal. We left the boat, and after a tramp of two days 

 reached Verkhne-Kolymsk on October 9, 1901. There I found the 

 goods which I had sent ahead in 1900 from the Bay of Ola. From 

 Verkhne-Kolymsk, a village of eight houses and one church, I visited 

 the Yukaghir of the River Yassachna. It was December 8 when the 

 Yakut whom I had left on the Korkodon reached Verkhne-Kolymsk. 

 Then we proceeded to Sredne-Kolymsk, the capital of the district 

 and a town of five hundred inhabitants, arriving there December 24. 

 On January 6, 1902, we continued our journey to Nishne-Kolymsk, 

 and then to the Yukaghir of the tundra west of the Kolyma. February 

 15 we returned to Sredne-Kolymsk, and March 6 started on our return 

 journey. Passing Verkhoyansk we reached Yakutsk April 25, 1902. 



The condition of affairs in northeastern Siberia happened to be 

 very unfavorable during the time of my visit. A famine prevailed 

 among the Yukaghir of the Yassachna. I assisted them as far as I 

 could, and sent a messenger to Sredne-Kolymsk to request the assist- 

 ance of the government. In the spring of 1902 the inhabitants of 

 three Yukaghir tents on the Omolon were found starved to death. 

 Even in Sredne-Kolymsk the fishing had been a complete failure, and 

 the people were compelled to kill their dog teams because they could 

 not feed them. Hunting on the tundra had also been a failure. 

 Besides this, there were unusual demands made upon the horses and 

 reindeer that are used as means of conveyance on the post-road from 

 Yakutsk to Kolymsk, so that the animals were quite exhausted. On 

 this road we met officers from Yakutsk, government messengers, and 

 members of several expeditions: — the Mammoth expedition of the 

 Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences, part of the polar expedition of 

 Baron von Toll, and the English newspaper expedition of Harry de 

 Windt. For these reasons the conveyance of the Yukaghir collec- 

 tions to Yakutsk was very difficult. We spent some time in the dis- 

 trict of Yakutsk, where I made a Yakut collection. We started 

 homeward July 16, 1902; reached Irkutsk August 8, where we took 

 the railroad for St. Petersburg, and finally arrived at New York 

 November 18, 1902. 



The distance covered by myself and Mrs. Jochelson from Gishiga 

 to Irkutsk amounted to nearly eight thousand miles. The results of 

 our work are complete studies of the ethnography and anthropology 

 of the Koryak and Yukaghir, illustrated by. extensive collections. 



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