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FARTHEST NORTH 



I am unable to say. It might be that the simpHcity of 

 the old faith was expressed in the simple, four -sided 

 buildino^, while the rites and ceremonies of the other 

 were typified in the octagonal form, with its double 

 number of corners to stumble aoainst. Then we must 



THE NEW CHURCH AND THE OLD CHURCH AT KHABAROVA 



[From a PlutografJi) 



go and see the monastery — " Skit," as it was called — 

 where the six monks had lived, or rather died, from what 

 people said was scurvy, probably helped out by alcohol. 

 It lay over against the new church, and resembled an 

 ordinary low Russian timber- house. The priest and 



