THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



These collections embrace three thousand ethnographical objects, 

 forty-one plaster casts of faces, measurements of aliout nine hundred 

 individuals, twelve hundred photograplis, one hundred fifty tales and 

 traditions, phonographic cylinders, and skulls and archaeological spe- 

 cimens from al)andoned village sites and from graves. I also made 

 a small zoological collection, and obtained a large mammoth tusk 

 weighing two liundred twenty pounds. During the whole period of 

 my absence 1 kept a meteorological journal. 



Mr. Jochelson does not state in this rej^iort that on his whole 

 journey overland to the Kolyma, and from there through the 

 district of Yakutsk, certain Russian officials, following a secret 

 order issued by the Minister of the Interior, did all they could to 

 hinder the progress of the expedition and to thwart its success. 

 This action seems difficult to understand, in view of the hearty 

 support and assistance rendered by the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences and the open letters issued by the Russian Government, 

 requesting the officials of Siberia to render assistance whenever 

 possible. 



Mr. Bogoras gives the following description of his expedition : 



We left Vladivostok June 14, 1900. for Mariinsky Post at the 

 mouth of the Anadyr River, taking the onlv regular means of convey- 

 ance, the Russian mail steamer, which visits the place but once a year. 

 Contrary to my expectations, I had not Ijeen able to charter a special 

 steamer to carry the Anadyr branch of the Jesup Xorth Pacific Ex- 

 pedition to the Chukchee Peninsula. 



Mariinsky Post is the most remote settlement of the Russians in 

 northeastern Asia. We arrived there after a five weeks' journey. A 

 detachment of Cossacks is stationed there, l_>v the side of a small native 

 village. The Cossacks live in barracks built of timber and covered 

 all over with earth. The native village is the southernmost settle- 

 ment of the Maritime Chukchee, and is distant several days' journey 

 from the nearest village of the same tribe. On account of an epi- 

 demic of measles which was ravaging the Chukchee villages, I could 

 not hire a boat's crew for a journey to the north. Therelore I had 

 to delay my visit to the northern villages until the next spring, when 

 I crossed Holy Cross Bay on the ice. Before starting I had arranged 

 to meet Mr. Jochelson at Kamenskoye, on the Sea of Okhotsk, where 

 I was to spend some time studying the Koryak language. I also 



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