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Title: The panorama of nations : comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the principal nations of the world, as illustrated in narratives of peril and adventure
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Beardsley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ots, Tuugu-sians, and Yukaheers; and by his preaching and friendly coun-sel, and more perhaps by his example, he had found means tooperate an evident improvement in their moral and social condi-tion. Age had in no way cooled the zeal of this Siberianapostle, who, regardless alike of peril and of the rigours of theclimate, was still in the habit of travelling 2000 versts,(equal to about two-thirds of an English mile) every year tobaptize the new-born children of his widely scattered flock, towhom he not only afforded spiritual consolation and temporaladvice, but was ready, on an emergency, to assume the office ofphysician, a character to which he may have been indebted forno small part of his influence over his rude parishioners. FatherMichael, however, was not wholly absorbed by his clerical duties.Old as he was, he still went up a fur-hunting to the neighbour-ing mountains, and relied upon his rifle .for no small addition tohis little income; and he had succeeded in planting a little
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■•l:lli-l.ii,7/////V//J/ I LIFE IN SIBERIA. 265 kitchen garden, in which he reared potatoes, turnips, cabbages, andother European vegetables, exotics usually known only by namein these remote northern regions. Among other dainties, the oldman placed before his guest a cake made of fish flour, an articleof his own invention. The fish, having been completely dried,is rubbed into fine powder, and, if kept from the damp, may bepreserved for a long time. M. Von Wrangel assures us, that,with the addition of a little wheaten flour, very savoury pastrymay be made of it. The cold became more severe as our author advanced furthertowards the north, and before reaching Sredne-Kolymsk, thoughyet in the middle of October, the thermometer had alreadymarked 29° below Zero. He thought it high time, therefore,to make his winter toilette, the particulars of which may be in-teresting to those of our readers who are desirous of studyingforeign fashions. Over my customary travelling uniform 1 had firs

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