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tribes of the tundras. It was decided to descend the
Lena River to its mouth, and thence to go westward by
sledge to the Lower Yenisei, and this plan was eventually
carried out, though not without considerable risk, for the
explorers having been frozen-in on a small island in the
Lena delta, came within measurable distance of sharing the
fate of the crew of the Jeannette, who, it may be
remembered, perished of cold and starvation within a few miles
of this very spot in 1881. But though the author and his
companions escaped such mischance, and were successful
in establishing relations with the natives over a wide area,
the mystery of Andrée’s fate, as all the world knows, still
remains to be solved.
The reader will perhaps regret that Mr. Stadling has
dwelt so sparingly upon his own personal adventures in
the following narrative, and, if he be a naturalist, that
there are so few references to the plants and animals of this
little-known region. But with regard to the latter it must
be remembered that the journey was made in winter, when
even a Middendorff could have done little, while, if the
day-to-day incidents are kept in the background, we are
given in place of them much that is of interest on the
more serious questions affecting the country. Here, too,
the author’s information is of especial value, backed as it is
by his knowledge of the Russian people and their language.
No one will deny that we should be able to recognise a
disorder before we can hope to find a remedy, and it is
therefore satisfactory to learn that the views of Mr. Stadling
are in accord with those of most English travellers as to
the moral and social malady which has so long affected
Siberia. What Mr. Seebohm describes on the Petchora
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