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rheumatism. One of the exiled working-men had his
young wife and baby with him. Another of the exiles
kept aloof from all company, and showed signs of insanity,
to which malady these unhappy people often fall victims.
A few miles outside the city were colonies of exiled
sectarians, such as Stundists, Duchobortsi, Skoptsi, and
others.
From Turukansk to Krasnoyarsk, a distance of about
870 miles, we travelled with horses. The snowstorms
continued, and the torosses on the river together with
dammed up masses of water made the journey very difficult
and tedious.
On reaching the mouth of the Podkamennaya Tunguska,
where the gigantic river has made its way through a chain
of mountains, the scenery becomes less monotonous, and
at certain places is even grand. The trees are majestic,
and the numerous islands in the river are highly picturesque.
The villages now grow more and more in size, and part
of the population seems to be well off.
On our arrival in Yeniseisk we learned, to our regret,
that no news of Andrée had been received. I had some
thought of spending the rest of the winter in this town,
and making an expedition in the spring to the western
part of the Taimyr peninsula, but on our arrival at
Krasnoyarsk I received news from home which made it necessary
for me to give up this plan. Here I also learned that the
third member of our expedition, our botanist Mr. Nilson,
with whom we parted on the lower Lena, had been
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