VILLAGE OX THE OB 



CHAPTER XLV. 



FROM TOMSK TO PERM. 



From Tomsk to Tiumen An Old Acquaintance Cost of Steamboat 

 Travelling Cooking Tobolsk Contrast between Russian and Tatar 

 Villages Threading the Labyrinth of the Tura The Black Kite- 

 Cormorants Asiatic White Crane Notes of Sandpipers Tiumen 

 Russian Hotel Accommodation Bad Roads Ekaterinburg Recrossing 

 the Ural Iron-works Kongur New Railways The Big Village. 



WE left Tomsk on Thursday, the 3oth of August. The 

 water in the river was so low that the steamer was not 

 able to come up to the town, so we were obliged to hire 

 a droshky to drive us three miles to the station on 

 Wednesday evening, when we got into a small tug 

 steamer which weighed anchor at three o'clock in the 

 morning. The Kosagoffsky was lying about forty-five 

 versts down the river, and we were comfortably quartered 

 on board of her in time for a late breakfast. She was a 

 smart iron vessel, built in Tiumen, and would not have 



