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CHAPTER XII.
THE POLITICAL EXILES AND THEIR SERVICES TO SCIENCE.
The Early Explorers—Martyrs of Science—The Meteorology of
Verkhoyansk—A Via Dolorosa—The Life-Work of Tschekanovsky—His Suicide.
While speaking of the town of Yakutsk, we must not
omit a word in recognition of the services of those men
who, starting thence on their adventurous journeys to
the unknown regions in the far north and east, have,
perhaps unwittingly, contributed largely to our
geographical knowledge of Siberia—men such as Djeschneff, who
discovered Bering’s Strait long before the voyage of Bering;
Liakoff, the first known discoverer of the southern group
of the New Siberian Islands, named after him; Andreieff,
who gave the first information of the existence of the Bear
Islands; Staduschin, Schaluroff, Bachoff, Lapteff and others,
who have helped to unroll the map of those far-off lands.
Many of these men did not possess the knowledge or the
means of publishing their travels to the world at large, nor
indeed did they undertake their voyages for scientific
purposes. Their names and deeds have for the most part
remained unknown until explorers and savants of later times
have brought them to light.
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