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islands on which the small and shaggy cattle are now and
then seen grazing. These cattle belong to the Yakuts,
who seldom live near the river, but have their yurtas by
the lakes in the interior of the country, or in the forest at
some distance from the Lena. The villages are peopled
by Russians with a smaller or larger percentage of Yakut
blood in their veins. Most of them have forgotten their
native tongue and speak only the Yakut language, and
have also in other respects become “Yakutised.” On a
sunny day we passed the “Pillars of the Lena,”
fantastically-shaped rocks of limestone, forming an unbroken chain of
cliff for about five and twenty miles along the eastern
shore of the river. A little later we approached the “town”"
of Olekminsk, situated at the mouth of the river Olekma,
and came to anchor.
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