YENISICISK, yen-e-si'llc. Siberia, (I) a town in the government of the same name on the left bank of the Yenisei, 200 miles north of Krasnoyarsk It has several churches, a mon astery, museum of natural history and archeol ogy and a public library. It is in the northern gold-mining region, has a custom-house, an ex tensive trade, particularly in furs, and an an nual fair. Pop. about 13,000. (2) A province in the government of Irkutsk, bordering on the Arctic Ocean, bounded east by Yakutsk and Irkutsk, south by Mongolia, and west by Tomsk; area, 987,186 square miles; capital, Krasnoyarsk. The south part of the province is occupied with the Altai Hills and their off sets. In the Yenisei valley considerable tracts are under tillage, but north of the town of Ycniseisk this is succeeded first by pasturage, then by stretches ever more and more desolate, to the frozen tundras. The chief river is the Yenisei. Smaller streams are the Taimyr, Ka tanga and Anabar, which, like the Yenisei, form great its at tnetr mourns. tile gout wasn ings of Yeniseisk occupy 12,000 to 15,000 men and several thousand horses. Of the native tribes, who live by hunting, fishing, and trade in fur, the chief are Samoyedes and Tungus. The mean annual temperature ranges from 8° to 31° F. In recent years flax-growing has in creased. There are extensive and valuable for ests, in which much damage is wrought annually tp) fires. Pop. 970.800. Consult Martianor, N.,
'Materials for a Flora of the Minusinsk Re gion' (in Trudy of the Kazan Society of Natur alists, Vol. XI. 3, 1R82 and Radlov, W., 'Aus Sibirien' (2 vols., Leipzig 1880).
YEO, yt7r, St* James Lucas, English naval officer: h. Southampton, Hampshire, 1782; d. at sea, 1818. Entering the navy at 11 he was pres ent at the siege of Genoa in 1800, and while in command of a force of English and Portuguese captured Cayenne. French Guiana. In 1813 he became commander-in-chief of the English naval force of the Great Lakes and soon came irto conflict with the American ships of war there. An engagement occurred at York Bay, 2.4 May 1813, in which Yeo received a severe dru ling and was blockaded afterward at King•ton by rhaunerv. In tht• following year Yeo was made commander-in-chief of the F_ng lists fleet on tht• vre‘t coast of Africa.
yzolawn, yo'man., a term of early Enciiitis origin formerly applied to a feudal attendant or servant, but in the 15th century and subse quently denoting a small freeholder below the rank of gentleman. The term yeoman wsa given also to the 40 shillings freeholder, and commonly to any small farmer or countryman above the grade of laborer. The term is also familiar in the titles of functionaries in roy-al households, such as yeoman usher of the Hack rod, yeoman of the robes, etc., and other appen dages to worn-out and useless royalty.