48 REV. D. GATH WHITLEY, ON THE 
Fadeyeffskoi. This island was discovered by Sannikoff in 1803, 
and large quantities of the tusks and teeth of elephants 
(z.c., maminoths) and rhinoceroses have been carried away from 
it. The Jcannette’s crew, however, did not find it a very 
attractive spot, for, as far as they could observe, the island was 
mainly composed of mud hills, which were fast wearing away 
and forming shoals off the land. Beyond the low hills ‘inland 
the island seemed to consist of mossy swamps. The searchers 
for ivory had been there not long before, as an empty hut stood 
not far from the shore The Jeannette’s crew found on 
Fadeyeffskoi an elephant’s tusk and a bone of the same 
animal.* Much troubled by floating ice and snow storms, and 
buffeted by winds and waves, the voyagers after leaving 
Fadeyeffskoi, landed on September Ond on the S.E. coast of the 
island of Kotelnoi. The land was moderately high, with small 
beaches here and there, and flocks of snowy owls were sitting 
on the ledyes in the cliffs. The searchers for mammoths’ tusks 
had been at work in this island, for in some earth hills 
excavations were found. <A hut was also seen, as well as some 
Russian relics. Two elephants’ tusks and other fragments of 
fossil ivory were found in this island by different members of 
the Jeannette's party.t 
Captain de Long and his companions left Kotelnoi in their 
three boats for the Siberian coast on September 7th, and, 
steering southwards amidst rough gales and snow storms, and 
encountering much trouble from the masses of floating ice, 
they reached on the 10th the island of Semenoffskoi. They 
landed, and found teeth of elephants, as well as horns and 
traces of reindeer. The earthy deposits on this island 
evidently contain mammoths’ remains. 
A terrible disaster now overtook the voyagers. A storm 
burst upon them on the 14th of September when they were 
near the coast of Siberia, and the three boats were separated. 
One sank, no traces of her being ever discovered. Captain de 
Long and the party in his boat reached the shore, and landed 
at the northern inouth of the Lena. They made their way 
southwards for a short time, but, overcome by famine and 
exhaustion, all died with the exception of two sailors. The 
party in the third boat, under Lieutenant Melville, reached the 
Russian settlements in safety. Thus we find, that although the 
* Our lost Explorers, p. 314. 
t+ The Voyage of the “ Jeannette,” vol. ii, pp. 740, 741 
