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lishments— An interview with an American gold miner — 

 Importing machinery— Siberia and Klondyke— Gold in 

 Siberia— Silver— Coal production and coal-fields in the 

 Altai — Methods of working Siberian coal deposits— Criminal 

 and political convicts— The student riots at Tomsk — 

 Siberians and the Government. 



CHAPTER V 



A Winter Expedition to the Altai . . . .138 



We leave Novo-NicolaSvsk — Sledging in Siberia — Shooting 

 " ryabchiks " — Barnaoul — Immigration — Cattle-breeding 

 and other local industries — Influence of the railway — 

 Exports— Waterways— The hotel at Barnaoul — We leave 

 for Bysk — Butter caravans — Wolves and dogs — Kharlipko 

 — A night at a post-station — Bysk — We attend a reception 

 — I am supplied with a " Shuba " — Krasnobaisk — A journey 

 through the dark to Altaiskoe — Shimelovskaya Pass — 

 Barancha — Tavourack — A Russian bath — We are upset — 

 Siberian horses — Chorni-Anni — A dust storm — Kalmuck 

 settlement — Abbi — A difficult journey — The Koksa River — 

 Ouemon — We are advised to abandon our undertaking — 

 Katunda. 



CHAPTER VI 



Peak-bagging in the Altai 174 



Position of Katunda — Belukha — Difficulty of reaching the 

 mountain — A hunter refuses to accompany us — Slow pro- 

 gress — A Kalmuck hut and a halt — We camp in a tent six 

 feet six inches long — Rough riding — Our first view of the 

 Katunskie-Belki range — We select a spot for a camp — 

 Belukha glacier — "Windy Camp" — Sleeping through a 

 hurricane — Glacier action — Hardness of the ice — Disposi- 

 tion of the mountains — Falls of rock — The moraine — Lakes 

 — Skis — A hanging glacier — My hunter refuses to go any 

 further — I proceed alone — Beauty of the view — Measure- 

 ments of the mountains — I begin the return — Am thoroughly 



