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of the children of school-age received any instruction
whatever. Another commented upon the report that 700
new churches were to be erected for the immigrants, by
quoting the fact that in some provinces only one child out
of 18 received any instruction, and even that was often of
a very inferior nature.
Between Omsk and Ob I met a Siberian newspaper-editor
from Tomsk, who showed much interest in our expedition.
To my enquiry as to the report spread in Europe viâ
Rome during the previous winter, that three dead foreigners
had been found somewhere in Siberia, he replied that it
was a very common affair for corpses to be found in the
forests of Siberia, but he had never heard of any discovery
of this nature which could be connected in any way with
the Andrée Expedition. If Andrée and his comrades had
been found dead or alive, the fact would certainly have
become known, as they would easily have been identified.
During the spring, he said, when the snow commences to
melt, a large number of corpses of “unknown persons”
are found in the forests near the roads in the vicinity of
villages and cities. These “unknown persons” are either
escaped prisoners who have perished from exposure, or
else persons who have been murdered; and these finds of
corpses are so common that they are called by the people
“podsnièshniks” (snow-flowers). This Andrée report was
explained in the same way by other Siberians.
From the bridge over the Ob, 875 yards in length, we
had a magnificent view of the great river, now filled with
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