New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-13

gg1c593nprehended words with marvellous verbal
+,,re allo le3 nave preserved the quaint old
tract1ve And So finally. after 600 years Of wander
ana music found resting place, on Mrs. Bogoras's
Mrs. Bogoras brought back with her great rum
Der OF monograph records containing these songs,
the Childhood OF the Tse q az g 6el II
uericai tales still exist in remote peasant villages
cred them UP when possible But they are
Gn sung ot IN KuSsa only Fected TIE music
whole cycle was found in its pristine richness.
SIX HUNDRED FOLKLORE TALES
These Yukaghirs are musical people They
have many dances each accompanied by its song.
Each age has its own songs and dances; the girls
theirs. and the older women theirs The women
seem 10 he the transmftters of the folklore the
mothers teaching the songs their daughters.
They are great story teIlers well but their
collected some 500 native tales During the long
winter nights they sing. dance and tell stories
While Mrs Bogoras was making her collections
in Marcova, Mrs. Jochelson was travelling with
her husband overland from the Okhotsk Sea to the
Arctic Ocean This region explored contains three
and the whole Inhabited by not more than five
thousand people so that to say the least the poPu
cosmopolitan splendor OF Marcova. live in houses
underground and approached by long. zgzag
passage, through which one must crawl on hands
Jocheison party of seven travelled for Afty-sx
DAYS once without meeting a person. Their food
on short ratlons for ten days. Winter is the time
to travel there. In a dog siedge or seated IN d
little saddle a RENDERS neck-his back is too
weak-going is then very comfortable, as arcuc
travel goes. But in summer the ground becomes
almost impenetrable morass- -, A., .
Mr.. BogGras meanwhile was exploring along the
Pacific Coast north OF kamSchatka, Where ne
found Indian tribe which had never seen d
white man before. not even q trader They were a
OF being and very filthy in their habits They were
all afraid of him. for the white mans reputation
+ Tsp iid an With whom he came in contact
Mr. Bogoras their confidence oy giving tle
children sugar. They did not know what II Was
but Juvenile greed conquered. ana Wnen ORC 10y
had tasted the battle was No man VINO gave
away such delicious stuff as that could De q muir
derer -, I'll
iage conta ming one house. occupied by ABOUT
twenty people all of family When the
left one house he would travel two days peIore
reaching another
TERRIBLE FOG STORM.
An experience of Mr.. Bogoras's Illustrates the
mild and genial weather encountered by the eA-
plore-s 4 terrible storm came up while he was IN
a house In another house. ten feet away, the
people were pronouncing inCautations against the
storm He was naturally very anxious 10 ger 10
me other house but no would go with MIN
He set out alone. at the first step into tfls
pitchy blackness without he seemed to nave pIunse
into furious torrent of icy WateI- q. ~ T ~
turned and found his way into his own door again
Had he been unable to find the entrance, ne "ouiu
doubtless have persisted at the very ogoI ~
moments. inside he found ms cotnes aLlpp..S
wet with ice water. These wet Jog storms co .E
several times year. and sometimes last i'i 'e
days ,x, ,-. .ba alive
dress OF reindeer skin stockings, high ooots 4Ilo
long straight coat, over their own &c
md in and was not heavy as proadcioIn al
though warmer than any fabric could possibly "e-