142 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST 



dinner, and at 6 p.m. proceeded in a tarantasse, or country 

 cart for Kargopol. 



We parted at Weitegra from Herr Jacobi, who had 

 forgotten to have his passport vise, and had no pade- 

 roshna. He turned up at Archangel more than a week 

 after we did, 



At Weitegra, a Russian gentleman who spoke French 

 and a little English was good enough to help us. 



During our first stage on the tarantasse we experienced 

 considerable anxiety as to how we should be able to 

 stand that style of travelling ; but later we got accus- 

 tomed to the jolting, and even in a measure to the 

 confinement, and slept now and then. The want of 

 room for one's legs was the worst part of it. The 

 following are the stages and distances we travelled to- 

 day, when we slept part of the way : 



1. 25 versts — 9 o'clock. 



2. 24 versts — 12 midnight. 



June 11. 



During Tuesday, the 11th of June — a cooler day — we 

 drove on through the same kind of level and forest-clad 

 country, not interesting. We got nothing to eat but 

 bread and milk and eggs and the cheese we had with us. 



We arrived at Kargopol at 11.30 p.m., where we had 

 some difficulty in making people understand our wants, 

 but at last succeeded. We were very sleepy, but not done 

 up as one might have expected, having travelled 225 

 versts (147 English miles) ' straight on end ' ! 



The stages from Weitegra to Kargopol were: — 



1st 25 versts 9 p.m. 10th June. 



2nd 24 „ 12 p.m. 



3rd 26 ,, 3.30 a.m. 11th June. 



4th 25 ,, 7 a.m. 



