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CHAPTER XI.
IN THE CITY OF YAKUTSK.
Andrée Stories—Yakutsk and its Mud—The Freebooters—Atrocities of the
Voyevodes—Revolt of the Natives—Yakutsk of To-day—The Kossack
“payek”.
In the city of Yakutsk we spent over a week, waiting for
the steamer Lena, in which we were to go down the river from
which she takes her name. Besides the governor and other
officials, I here interviewed several persons who were said
to have more or less knowledge of the Arctic regions, but
it was impossible to ascertain whether trappers had or had
not visited the New Siberian Islands during the summer of
1897 or the spring of 1898, nor could I get any reliable
information calling for alteration of our original plans.
Andrée stories of the usual kind, of course, were showered
upon us even here. Thus a certain merchant of Yakutsk
had seen a luminous balloon sailing southwards one night
in November, 1897; a number of Yakuts in the fall of the
same year, while travelling on the Upper Aldan, had
observed among the mountains “an immense balloon, and
in the balloon were three white men;” while a certain
person visited us almost every day with a wonderful story
to the effect that Yakuts had found Andrée and his
companions dead in the forest, and that he would conduct
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