TRAVELLING IN SIBERIA. MR. DE WINDT'S EXPERIENCES. EXTENSIVE GOLD DISCOVERIES. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
(Received September 18, 9.55 a.m.) ~ LONDON, 17th September. Mr. Harry de Windt, the x explorer, who travelled fr^m Paris to Dawson City, Yukon, across Siberia, has returned to England. In an interview, Mr. Do Windt stated that in traversing 11,263 miles in Siberia ho used 800 horses and 900 reindeer. Ninety - seven out of 100 dogs used' died He informed the authorities at St. Petersburg that half the exiles at Sredne Kolimsk die mad from solitude, or fear of their sentences being suddenly extended. t Mr. De Windt states that the gold discovered in 1901 at the village o! Vitimok exceeded the yield of Klondike in its best year. Hence the eagerness of Russia to complete the Irkutsk- Yakutrtk railway, which will be finished iv 1906.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 69, 18 September 1902, Page 5
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138TRAVELLING IN SIBERIA. MR. DE WINDT'S EXPERIENCES. EXTENSIVE GOLD DISCOVERIES. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 69, 18 September 1902, Page 5
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