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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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walls and Louis XV. furniture;only one somewhat necessary article ofthe toilet was missing—a wash-stand; andI learned, on inquiry, that guests wereexpected to perform their ablutions at abrass tap and tin basin fixed up against 768 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. the passage wall. The bedstead of myhost was an oaken masterpiece by a fa-mous Italian artist, but he preferred toretire to rest, fully dressed, on threechairs! From Irkutsk our long sleigh-journeywill commence, the first portion of which,as far as Yakutsk, should be accom-plished with little discomfort, for the Si-berian post-sleigh is a luxurious contriv-ance, snugly lined with furs, and fittedwith a curtained hood to shut out thewind and cold. The stations on this roadconsist of log huts, where salt fish andblack bread are generally obtainable.The eighteen hundred miles between Ir-kutsk and Yakutsk are generally cover-ed in under three weeks, in favorableweather; but everything depends uponthe wind, for during strong gales the
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Interior of a native House between Yakutsk and the Arctic Ocean smooth snowy track is swept into a suc-cession of hills and dales, like the billowsof a stormy sea, over which a sleigh rollsand labors with difficulty. In summer-time Yakutsk may be reached by steam-ers, which, since the opening of theTrans-Siberian Railway, ply pretty fre-quently up and down the Lena, the thirdgreat river of northern Asia, two thou-sand five hundred miles in length, whosewaters drain an area of about eight hun-dred thousand square miles. Toward the end of January the expedi-tion should reach Yakutsk, capital of theprovince of that name, which covers one-third of Siberia. Yakutsk is the resi-dence of a Governor (under the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia at Irkutsk),contains about 10,000 inhabitants, and isconnected by telegraph with St. Peters-burg. Europeansform only a smallproportion of thepopulation, whichconsists chiefly ofYakutes—a lazy butfriendly Asiatic raceof people, who will befurther des

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