IO4 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XIX, 



ITINERARY AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY. 

 By N. G. Buxton. 



On March 16, 1900, I received instructions at New York 

 to proceed immediately to San Francisco, purchase my outfit, 

 and be in readiness to sail with the Jesup North Pacific Ex- 

 pedition for northeastern Siberia on April 10, which had 

 already been organized and equipped for an ethnological sur- 

 vey of that country. 



Accordingly I left New York March 24, going by way of 

 New Orleans and thence over the line of the Southern Pacific 

 Railway Company, whose officials had kindly furnished me 

 with transportation, and arrived at San Francisco April i. 

 Mr. W. Jochelson, leader of the expedition, and Mr. Bogoras 

 came on the 9th, when it was decided that it would be impos- 

 sible to get away on the loth as we had expected. However, 

 by the end of the following week we had so far completed 

 our outfits and arranged the details necessarily incident to 

 such an undertaking, that we engaged passage on the Ori- 

 ental and Occidental Steamship Company's vessel 'Doric,' 

 which sailed on the lyth. After an uneventful voyage of six 

 days we sighted the Sandwich Islands, and that afternoon, 

 April 23, rounded Diamond Head and docked at Honolulu. 

 One day was spent here, when we resumed our journey, and 

 on the 4th of May reached Yokohama, where we remained 

 four days; we made Kobi on the 9th and Nagasaki on the 

 morning of the nth. We left the same day at midnight, on 

 the Chinese Eastern Railway Company's steamer 'Mukden.' 

 Fusan, on the Korean coast > was reached May 12, Gensan the 

 1 4th, and on the i6th we anchored in the harbor off Vladivos- 

 tok. 



According to our plans, Mr. Bogoras was to proceed north 

 to the Gulf of Anadyr while Mr. Jochelson, Mr. Axelrod, whom 

 we found here awaiting us, and myself were to go to Gichiga at 

 the head of Okhotsk Sea. We found that the next vessel for 

 the latter place would sail in about ten days, which was too 

 soon for us, as we still had to get our official papers, buy our 

 staple provisions and trading goods, complete our outfits, and 



