Frost-bitten Aeain. 



it vigorously with snow and vodka, the latter being considered 

 an excellent remedy in such cases. Gradually he restored life 

 to it though it was more than a month before resuming its 

 normal condition, for the whole of the skin peeled, while in 

 places where I had pricked it with the knife it festered badl}', 

 and later necessitated my halting three days in Ustkhamenogorsk 

 to allay the swelling. 



Siberia is a hard country to travel through in winter, and 

 the starosta was much amused at mv remarks on the climatic 



KHATIMSKI AND MV ORDERLY. 



rigours of his native land. He told me one might be the Czar 

 of All the Russias but little King Frost cared not for that I 



1 was much astonished when the starosta and a Tartar 

 merchant in the post-house at the time assured me the frost- 

 bite was due to my being over-dressed, and that to avoid a 



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