The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-03-30
Danenh0Wer's Life In Yakutsk.

Mrs. Danenhower has received long
letter from her son, Lieutenant Dan
enhower, of the Jeanette explor
ing expedition, dated Yakutsk,
Siberia, December 30, 1881. 1t contains
no news which has not been anticipated
by telegraphic dispatches, but it gives
some interesting details with regard tc
the life of the Jeanette survivors al
Yakutsk. In the letter Lieutenant
| Danenhower says:
We are passing The time quietly but
impatiently. 1t is daylight here at about
8 A. NJ. We get up and have breakfast
at little hotel chat is handy. The
forenoon spend reading little, writing
a little and in attending to any bust.
ness 1 may happen to have on hand.
About 2 p. NJ, General Tschernieff's s
sleigh arrives, andI go to dine with him;
generally return about P NJ, and if
do not have visitors / take q nap and
kill time as well aS can until p. NJ,
when we have supper at the little hotel,
and then go to bed. AS have told you
before, have found nice people in
every part of the world that 1 have
visited, and this place is by no means
an exception Lastevening, for instance,
we spent very pleasantly at the house OF
Mr. Correikof, an Irkutsk merchant,
who entertained us very we'll. His wife
is charming lady, and it was very
pleasant to see tie three beautiful chill
dren. They ha~ a fine piano, the first
one we have seen since leaving San
Francisco.
Yakutsk is q city of 5000 Inhabitants.
The houses are tuilt of wood, and are
not painted. The streets are very wide
and each house has large yard OF
court. The pricipal trade is in furs
In summer great deal of fresh meat Is
sent up the river During nine months
of the year snow and ice abound. II
the winter the thermometer falls to sew
enty degrees below, zero Since our
arrival it has ben sixty eight degrees
below, and to-day It only thirty-five de
grees, or thereabpuis. In the summer
the temperature Uses as high as ninety
five degrees Fahruheit, but the nights
are cold. There are many horses and
COWS in this vicinity The natives, the
Yakutzs, eat horse meat, but the Rus
slams eat beef 9nd yenison. Potatoes,
cabbage and few Ither vegetables, 8
fow berries, wheat ard rJe are grown III
this vicinity There are few sheep
and poultry also.
Dr.. Kap5llo has examined my left eye
and he saws that very ordinary opera
ton is required to make it very eff
cient eve. What is called nn ''artifcial
pupil" will have to be cut in the mem
brane that now clouds the vision. He
advises me to wait until get home, for
after the operation | will have to remain
il O dark room for a month or two. MY
general health is excellent. I am stout
and hearty.
OF course there is very little Ameri-
car news in this far-away place, but l
have been able to pick up few bits OF
it here and there. The death of Gar
field is topic often mentioned, and
from the accounts here learn that he
was shot by Guiott on the train near
Long Branch. A great deal of interest
AMI sympathy is manifested by the
Russians. Last evening saw Tomsk
newspaper, which said that the Alliance
had made a cruise in search of the Jean.
nette, and had reached latitude eighty
degrees fifty-fve minutes north on the
west coast of Spitzbergen. Had our ship
held together ten (twoN years she would
probably have drifted out in that vi
cinity. About 900 miles south of this
place there lives an Englishman named
Lee, and from him l hope to learn {
great deal of news.