Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
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difficult ferry--A Russian posting carriage--Good substitute for a
trunk--"Road Agent" in Siberia--Rights of travelers--Kissing goes by favor--Captain John Franklin's equipage--Value of a ball--Stuck in the mud--The valley of the Nertcha--Reaching Nerchinsk CHAPTER XXIII. An extensive house--A Russian gold miner--Stories of the exiles--Polish exiles--"The unfortunates"--The treatment of prisoners--Attempts to escape--Buying a tarantass--Light marching order--A bad road--Sleeping on a stove--The valley of the Ingodah--Two hours in a mud hole--Recklessness of drivers--Arrival at Chetah CHAPTER XXIV. Location of Chetah--Prisoners in chains--Ingenuity of the exiles--Learning Hail Columbia in two hours--A governor's mansion--A hunting party--Siberian rabbits--Difficulties of matrimony--Religion in Siberia--An artillery review--Champagne and farewells--Crossing a frozen stream--Inconvenience of traveling with a dog--Crossing the Yablonoi Mountains--Approaching the Arctic Ocean CHAPTER XXV. A cold night--Traveling among the Mongols--The Bouriats and their dwellings--An unpleasant fire--The Bhuddist religion--Conversions among the natives--An easy way of catching sheep--A Mongol bell--A Mongol belle--A late hour and a big dog--Bullocks under saddle--An |
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