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which breaks up ice more than a mile wide, at least three 

 feet thick, and weighted with another three feet of snow, at 

 the rate of a hundred miles in the twenty-four hours. It 

 was eight o'clock in the morning when we landed in Ust- 

 Zylma, and heartily thankful we were to find ourselves once 

 more safe in our quarters. We were hungry and dead tired 

 after the excitement was over, and after a hasty breakfast 

 we were glad to turn into our hammocks. We slept for a 

 couple of hours, when, looking out of the window, we found 

 the crash had come ; the mighty river Petchora was a field of 

 pack ice and ice-floes, marching past towards the sea at the 

 rate of six miles an hour. We ran out on to the banks 

 to find half the inhabitants of Ust-Zylma watching the 

 impressive scene. 



OLD RUSSIAN SILVER CROSS. 



