Siberia in Asia: a visit to the valley of the Yenesay1882 |
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... roads - Epidemic among the horses - Race with the south wind - The Kahmin Pass - Stopped by the rain - The Kahmin Pass in December - The Pass in April - The south wind beaten .. .. 23 CHAPTER IV . Stations Hospitality of the peasants - ...
... roads - Epidemic among the horses - Race with the south wind - The Kahmin Pass - Stopped by the rain - The Kahmin Pass in December - The Pass in April - The south wind beaten .. .. 23 CHAPTER IV . Stations Hospitality of the peasants - ...
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... horses abreast , stopping to change them every fifteen to twenty miles , with bells tinkling to drive away the wolves . At first our road was down the Volga , and we travelled smoothly along with no greater misfortune than an occasional ...
... horses abreast , stopping to change them every fifteen to twenty miles , with bells tinkling to drive away the wolves . At first our road was down the Volga , and we travelled smoothly along with no greater misfortune than an occasional ...
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... horse . The first night's journey from Kazan was a fearful pull and jolt . The weather was mild , with snow , but the state of the roads was inconceivably bad . We were dashed about to such an extent that in the morning every bone in ...
... horse . The first night's journey from Kazan was a fearful pull and jolt . The weather was mild , with snow , but the state of the roads was inconceivably bad . We were dashed about to such an extent that in the morning every bone in ...
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... horses sixty - five times . Ekatereenburg has about 30,000 inhabit- ants . We were most hospitably entertained by M. George Onésime Clerc , the head of the Observatory at Ekatereen- burg , to whom I had a letter of introduction from M ...
... horses sixty - five times . Ekatereenburg has about 30,000 inhabit- ants . We were most hospitably entertained by M. George Onésime Clerc , the head of the Observatory at Ekatereen- burg , to whom I had a letter of introduction from M ...
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... horses twenty - seven times . It was quite holiday travelling ; we had good horses and excellent roads . The scene was entirely changed . We were now crossing the great steppes of western Siberia . We had left the Peak of Derbyshire ...
... horses twenty - seven times . It was quite holiday travelling ; we had good horses and excellent roads . The scene was entirely changed . We were now crossing the great steppes of western Siberia . We had left the Peak of Derbyshire ...
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