SLEDGING THROUGH THE SNOW 



CHAPTER II. 



LONDON TO ARCHANGEL. 



London to St. Petersburg — Mode of Heating Railway Carriages — Frozen 

 Market at St. Petersburg —Bohemian Wax wings — Moscow to Vologda — 

 M. Verakin— Sledging from Vologda to Archangel — The Yemschik — 

 Post-houses — The Samovar — Angliski Russ — Modes of Harnessing 

 Horses — State of the Roads — Weather — Traffic — Birds seen en route — 

 Arrival at Archangel. 



We left London on the 3rd of March 1875. A journey 

 of four days and three nights, including a comfortable 

 night's rest at Cologne and a few hours each at Hanover 

 and Berlin, landed us in St. Petersburg. In Belgium it 

 was cold, but there was no snow. In Germany we saw 

 skaters on the ice, and there were patches of snow in 

 shady corners. As we proceeded eastward the snow and 

 cold increased, and in Russia the whole ground was from 

 one to two feet deep in snow, and sledges were the only 



