Sl.EUGING IN A SNOW-STORM 



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. 



I HAD a letter of introduction from General Timarscheff, 

 the Minister of the Interior, to the Governor-General of 

 West Siberia in Omsk. Unfortunately the Governor 

 was from home, but his wife received us very kindly. 

 Her Excellency spoke good French and German, and had 

 an English governess for her children. M. Bogdanoff, in 



