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CHAPTER VII.—ON THE MIDDLE LENA 67

Vitim—The Gold Districts—Labour on the
Goldfields—“Varnak-Wages”—Statistics of the Gold Output—System of
Mining—Payday—“The Nobility of Vitim”—Trans-Shipment to the
Permiak—Scenery of the Middle Lena—Exiles northward bound—Yakutised
Russians—“Pillars of the Lena”—Olekminsk.

CHAPTER VIII.—THE PROVINCE OF YAKUTSK 73

Physical Characters of the Province—Intense Cold—Noises of the
Arctic Night—The Storms of Spring—Break-up of the Ice—Summer
in the Far North—An ever-frozen Soil—Products of the
Province—Mammoth Ivory.

CHAPTER IX.—THE YAKUTS 83

Population—Social Organisation—Yakut Horses and Cattle—Culture of
Cereals—The Yurta—Dress and Ceremonies—Shamanism—Russian
Shamanists.

CHAPTER X.—THE SKOPTSI IN EXILE 97

Olekminsk—Spaskoie—What Skoptsi Labour has done—An uneasy
Corpse—Marscha, the Skoptsi Colony—A Finnish Member of the
Sect—A Philosopher’s Library—History of the Skoptsi.

CHAPTER XI.—IN THE CITY OF YAKUTSK 107

Andrée Stories—Yakutsk and its Mud—The Freebooters—Atrocities
of the Voyevodes—Revolt of the Natives—Yakutsk of
To-day—The Kossack “payek”.

CHAPTER XII.—THE POLITICAL EXILES AND THEIR SERVICES TO
SCIENCE 119

The Early Explorers—Martyrs of Science—The Meteorology of
Verkhoyansk—A Via Dolorosa—The Life-Work of
Tschekanovsky—His Suicide.

CHAPTER XIII.—FROM YAKUTSK TO THE LOWER LENA 128

The Lena and its Scenery—Osfa—The Tunguses—The Shaman
Spirit-World—Schigansk—Bulun—The “King” of Bulun—Slavery and
Famine—Fish and Fisheries of the Lower Lena.

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CHAPTER VII.—ON THE MIDDLE LENA	67
Vitim—The Gold Districts—Labour on the Goldfields—“Varnak-Wages”—Statistics of the Gold Output—System of Mining—Payday—“The Nobility of Vitim”—Trans-Shipment to the Permiak—Scenery of the Middle Lena—Exiles northward bound—Yakutised Russians—“Pillars of the Lena”—Olekminsk.
CHAPTER VIII.—THE PROVINCE OF YAKUTSK	73
Physical Characters of the Province—Intense Cold—Noises of the Arctic Night—The Storms of Spring—Break-up of the Ice—Summer in the Far North—An ever-frozen Soil—Products of the Province—Mammoth Ivory.
CHAPTER IX.—THE YAKUTS	83
Population—Social Organisation—Yakut Horses and Cattle—Culture of Cereals—The Yurta—Dress and Ceremonies—Shamanism—Russian Shamanists.
CHAPTER X.—THE SKOPTSI IN EXILE	97
Olekminsk—Spaskoie—What Skoptsi Labour has done—An uneasy Corpse—Marscha, the Skoptsi Colony—A Finnish Member of the Sect—A Philosopher’s Library—History of the Skoptsi.
CHAPTER XI.—IN THE CITY OF YAKUTSK	107
Andrée Stories—Yakutsk and its Mud—The Freebooters—Atrocities of the Voyevodes—Revolt of the Natives—Yakutsk of To-day—The Kossack “payek”.
CHAPTER XII.—THE POLITICAL EXILES AND THEIR SERVICES TO SCIENCE	119
The Early Explorers—Martyrs of Science—The Meteorology of Verkhoyansk—A Via Dolorosa—The Life-Work of Tschekanovsky—His Suicide.
CHAPTER XIII.—FROM YAKUTSK TO THE LOWER LENA	128
The Lena and its Scenery—Osfa—The Tunguses—The Shaman Spirit-World—Schigansk—Bulun—The “King” of Bulun—Slavery and Famine—Fish and Fisheries of the Lower Lena.