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(1901) [MARC] Author: Jonas Jonsson Stadling Translator: Francis Henry Hill Guillemard - Tema: Russia
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life. This the native in question, Androssoff, told me he
did not remember, only that “the strange men stretched
out their hands, which I grasped” (to use his own words).
Androssoff, having nothing to eat with him, hurried back
to the camp for food and another reindeer sledge, and
the starving men were thus brought to the friendly
Tunguses at Kumak-Surt and saved. If the natives had
comprehended the signs of the strangers and hurried to the
delta in search of De Long and his party, some of them
might have been saved, but they understood them to refer
to Melville’s party, of the safety of which they had been
informed, and they therefore brought the half-dead men to
Bulun instead of going to the north.

Old Androssoff carries on his chest the medal which the
United States government bestowed on him, in addition to
other rewards, for this truly philanthropic act of his.

From Bulkur, where I stayed for some time, I made
several excursions in different directions, as far as it was
possible to do so amid the terrible storms of rain and snow
which rage almost all the summer in these regions. As
mentioned above, the Lena has here worked its way through
the Kara Ulak mountains. On the western side of the
river, where Bulkur is situated, the ancient beaches of the
gigantic river form terraces for a distance of about ten
miles or more inland, and through these old river-banks the
tributaries of the Lena, like the river Bulkur, have cut
their way. One day, following the latter river some six
miles to the west, I left its valley and ascended to the

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