Recollections of Siberia: In the Years 1840 and 1841 |
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Altai Altai mountains Angarà animal appearance Baikal Barnaoul belong Biisk Burates called Captain carriage Casan Chinese churches cold considerable Cossacks course distance district East Siberia Ekaterinburg Emperor empire employed English establishment exiles expense fact favour feet fifty frontier frozen gold governor-general ground Hedenström horses hospitality hundred pud hundred versts imagine immense inhabitants Irkutsk Irtysch journey Khiva Kiakhta Kirghis knout labour lake LAKE BAIKAL Lama land Léna live merchants mines Moscow mountains neighbourhood Nertchynsk never Nijni Octavo officer Omsk Orenburg peasants perhaps persons Petersburg principal probably punishment quantity received residence river road Russian sand Selenga Selenginsk sent sledge snow society sort Sparrow Hills Steppes summer tarantass Tatars Taysha Thibet thing thousand roubles tion Tobolsk Tomsk Tonguses town travellers tribes Ural Ust-Kamenogorsk Verkhne-Udinsk village whole wind winter Yakuts Yakutsk Yénisséi Yukaghires zolotnik
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Page 66 - So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language over national manners, that it was their most serious care to extend, with the progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue.