xii CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XXV. 



FROM LONDON TO OMSK. 



At St. Petersburg Political Feeling in Russia Feeling against England Russian 

 Arguments against the Policy of England At Moscow Irkutsk and the 

 Siberiaks At Nishni Novgorod The Journey before Us Our Sledge Birds 

 At Kazan Roads between Kazan and Perm At Perm At Kongur The 

 Urals Birds We Enter Asia Ekaterinburg Tiumen The Steppes 

 Villages of the Crescent and the Cross Russian and Mahommedan Clergy 

 Cheap Provisions Birds Pp. 255-265 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



DOWN RIVER TO THE KAMIN PASS. 



Omsk From Omsk to Tomsk Sledging Birds Tomsk Tomsk to Krasnoyarsk 

 Birds Krasnoyarsk Prices Beaten by the South Wind Frost again 

 Birds Yeneseisk Our Visitors Scientific Expeditions Birds Our 

 Lodgings Easter- day Festivities I Hire a Young Jew Lessons in Bird- 

 skinning New Sledges Down the Precipices Russian Hospitality Special 

 Couriers Deceptive Appearance of the Road Winding Roads Epidemic 



among the Horses Race with the South Wind The Kamin Pass Stopped 



by the RainThe Kamin Pass in December The Pass in April The South 

 Wind Beaten Pp. 266-280 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



TURUKANSK AND THE WAY THITHER. 



Stations Hospitality of the Peasants Furs and their Prices Dogs Drawing 

 Sledges Birds Visit to a Monastery Graphite Captain Wiggins's Former 

 Travelling Companion An Honest Russian Official ! Installed as Guests in 

 the House of the Zessedatel Turukansk We turn Shop-keepers The Skoptsi 

 Scarcity of Birds Old Gazenkampf Our Host's Tricks The Blagachina 

 The Second Priest The Priest's Accomplishments The Postmaster The 

 Secretary of the Zessedatel Schwanenberg's Troubles . . Pp. 281-291 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



OUR JOURNEY'S END. 



Soft Roads Sledging with Dogs Sledging with Reindeer W T e reach the Thames 

 Cost of Travelling The Yenesei River Good Health of the Thames Crew- 

 Precautions against Scurvy Fatal Results of Neglect Picturesqueness of our 

 Winter Quarters View from the House Through the Forest on Snowshoes 

 Birds The Nutcracker Continued Excursions in the Forest Danger ahead 



Pp. 292-298 

 CHAPTER XXIX. 



IN WINTER QUARTERS. 



The Ostiaks of the Yenesei An Ostiak Baby A new Bird Visit from the 

 Blagachina and the Postmaster Blackcocks in the Forest The Capercailzie 

 Wary Crows Stacks of Firewood Result of a Week's Shooting 



Pp. 299-303 



