The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-26

We could no longer hold out ara;nst I, .na
30 We turned III at one of these staf;o,,s -
augouts. We sat in our caves fwen.,,'s -
,yawv W. Wnile the snow piled up above as
we were completely covered, SO that any
u.e passihg would not have suspected our
Eresence. we were gloomy, very gloomy
we felt as If we were being bs,yr;esd liz. ill.,
without any certainty as to the time ~ ~, !,
resurrection. After something more Than
DAY we made hole through The hill If
snow over US, hoping to Ind signs of Am
apatement of the storm. ''-
All was gray and white still. Neverthe-
less, We shovelled ourselves clear and n
q diseonsolate start for Lukowa fwa a,a,e
hve mites away. The lrst day We made
eignt miles and camped in the omen air
sleeping as best we could in our f,,rs. On
me evening of the second we arrived On
Ins rlsef. All were completely exhausted
nau been terrible, though uneventfnl.
anese TWO days in the wilds of Siberia dur.
ing the Jury of q biting snowstorm. afraid
TO stop long for fear of dying of exposnre
YET equally afraid to push forward The
dogs had been obliged to nick their wav
step by step. In all the cold and
suar ri. they pushed persever-
ingiy forward, bleeding from the
nose ana eyes, SO that they left a bloody
snow frequently cut off the light so thai
no one could see three feet from his nose
70 learn whether his companions in the
next sleigh had surmountcd the last obsta-
Gle successfully, or had been precipitated
INTO one OF the yawning ice gulches that
swept down each side of our path.
On the river Lukowa we found trees
enough to dig. two holes eight feet deer in
tue snow, roof them over with branches
ana skins, and build fires with the
branches. Then we cooked tea and meat
the iirst hot food we had tasted for ave
Gays, believe no feast ever tasted bet
yer than this simple meal in the snow
On March Il the little band crawled ont
OF its comfortable quarters and marched
seven miles to the River Podaun. Thence
tney marched up steep mountain to a
nigh plateau. The ascent was SO steep
that the men had to cut rests for their feet
IN the snow and ice, and it required sixty
dogs to drag up each sleigh. Only three
sieighs were got up thus on the day of the
hrst attempt. and all the second day was
occupied with the work of getting up the
other SIX. In few days the caravan
brought up in Nadajau, d town on the
verge of being exterminated by an cpl
denic, proceeded thence to Kirchiga,
then across to and down the penin-
through the country OF tribe after tribe
that had never before seen European
They are pretty much like other siberians,
Mr.. Herr thinks, are hospitable heyond
measure, and have enormous herds Of rein
deer, from which they get .lcsh for food
and skins for garments. On April the
party arrived ut karaga. From then on
the weather became mild, and frequent
thaws gave evidence of the approach of
summer. The caravan ceased travelling by
day. From Dranka to Choiuli, TO Tka
Osernoi, Telofka, and Klutschefskol they
proceeded in the GOODNESS of the nights, TO
the benent of the shaken constitutions of
all the party, including the dogs.
Eight miles from Klutschefskol," said
Mr.. Herr, sis the klutschefskaya volcano
l5. 100 feet in height. Tremendous clouds
of smoke are pulled up from it constantly
Its twin peak, Uschkinskaya, is II, $50 feet
high. We undertook the ascent of the big
mountain, and, curiously enough. we
tried it in sleghs. We managed to get up
about 5000 feet in this fashion, and there
left the sleigh to go about 1000 feet higher
to the saddle formed by the junction of
the two volcanoes. From that point
l saw a magnificent view, one that
no other traveller from foreign
lands had ever looked upon. To the
northeast was the Klutschefskaya, to the
southeast the Uschkinskaya, to the south
third active volcano, Tolbatschinskaya,
$500 feet above the sea level, and in the
very far distance just glimpse of the
Behring sea. To the north. thirty miles
of, there was in sight a fourth active vol
cano, Schiyelitsch, ii goo feet high, which
in 1854 began an unparalleled eruption, laid
waste the country for 80 miles around.
|; The ascent to the saddle occupied two
days and half. while the descent was
made in four hours and thirty minutes"
Mr.. Herr left Klutschefskol on April
18th, and on Sunday, ten days later, ar
rived at his destination, Petropaulovski,
after having covered, according 10 his cal
culation, $1,000 kilometres, or about 5000
miles, since his departure from ST. Peters
burg. Between Okhotsk and Petropaul-
oyski, route never before travelled from
beginning to end by one man, he
had passed just eighty-four days. His
voyage to San Francisco lasted forty
DAYS He will sail for Germany
today to pass New Years with his family
in Dresden. Mr.. Herr shows in his per-
sonal appearance that he has experienced
recently considerable hardships. He is
thickset, of knotty muscular development
broad chest, and weather-beaten skin
He is enthusiastic over the success of his
explorations, and will hurry from Ores
den to st. Petersburg Immediately after
New Years to tell his ducal patron about
them.