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Identifier: siberiaexilesyst01kenn (find matches)
Title: Siberia and the exile system
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Kennan, George, 1845-1924
Subjects: Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia) -- Exiles
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ouls — assembledin front of Bielaiisofs house to see the cavalcade get underway. Mikhaiel, the guide, a stout, chubby-faced youngfellow, with tangled masses of yellow hair faUing over hisshoulders, had arrayed himself in a traveling suit of extra-ordinary chromatic brilliancy, and was the admired of allbeholders. His cotton shirt, which he wore outside hisbreeches like a tunic, was of a gory crimson, whose sug-gestions of bloodshed were relieved to some extent by apattern of big yellow harps; his loose buckskin trouserswere embroidered with bouquets of scarlet roses and hugeorange sunflowers, and the brim of his antiquated chimney-pot hat had been turned up in piratical fashion on one sideand fastened to the crown with round buttons of coloredglass. His assistant, Nikolai, had on yellow buckskintrousers embroidered with Patagonian cactuses and a cot-14 210 SIBERIA ton shirt ot dcvp iiuligo blue. Our provisions, consistingof toa. suirar, broad, two le^s of mutton, and a little honey,
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ASCICNT OF THE MOLNTAIN FKU.M BEREL. were packed in capacious, antediluvian saddle-bags; ourbrushes, soajj, towels, sponges, and spare underclothing BRIDLE PATHS OF THE ALTAI 211 were wrapped up in our blankets and securely lashed be-hind our saddles; and we sat on our pillows. The horsesthat had been provided for our use did not look very prom-ising at first sight, but I knew that the good qualities of aKirghis horse are not to be discovered by simple inspection,and I accepted Mikhaiels assurance that they were hardy,sure-footed, and accustomed to mountain paths. Abouthalf-past nine oclock everything was said to be ready, andcHmbing into our high, short-stirruped saddles we rodesolemnly in single file out of the settlement. There wasa faint cheer from the more youthful half of the assembledcrowd as we got under way, but Frost and I did not claimfor ourselves, or for our horsemanship, any of the popularenthusiasm thus manifested. We knew very well that itwas inspired by the golden har

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