SIBERIAN DOG SLEDGE 



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. 



THE distance from Yeneseisk to Turukansk is 1084 

 versts, or 723 miles. The road is divided into forty-four 

 stages, which we accomplished in nine days and ten 

 nights. The stations where we changed horses were 

 frequently in villages containing not more than half a 

 dozen houses. Those we visited were always scrupulously 

 clean, and everywhere we were most hospitably received. 

 The best the peasants had was placed before us tea, 



