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Title: A land journey from Asia to Europe : being an account of a camel and sledge journey from Canton to St. Petersburg through the plains of Mongolia and Siberia
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Whyte, William Athenry
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Publisher: London : S. Low, Son, & Marston
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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frozen Eiver Yenisee The Town of Krasnoyarsk—Obliged to buy a new Sledge We approach the Steppes of Baraba—A fearful Snow-storm—Method of indicating the proper Sledge Eoad—We takethe wrong Eoute—A out-throat Peasant Host . . 292 CONTENTS. CHAPTEE XI. PAGi: A Collision witli another Sledge—The Conntry of Windmills—The Telegraph Wires broken by the Snow—Disgusting Con-dition of the Peasant Post-houses—Wolves—The EiverIrtish—We quit the Steppe of Baraba—Abstemiousness andTrustworthiness of Eussian Drivers — Besroucova — OurDriver nearly takes us over a Bank—Our Eussian Fellow-traveller leaves everything behind him—A splendid Sunset—The Country begins to improve—A Sable in view—Wereach the Top of the Pass of the Oural Mountains—The plainwhite Stone that marks the Separation between Asia andEurope—We arrive at Nijni Novgorod, and bid farewell toour Sledges, and proceed by Bail to Moscow, and thence onto St. Petersburg . ... . 320 PEKIX TO KIACHTA.
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