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 Rain — The Kamin Pass in December — The Pass in April — The South 

 Wind Beaten Pp. 266-280 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



TURUKANSK AMD 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 — We 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 



