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proof that a Christian rested in the coffin. Notwithstanding 
this, we found some clothes, which had belonged to the departed, 
hanging on a bush beside the grave, together with a bundle con¬ 
taining food, principally dried fish. At the graves of the richer 
natives the survivors are even said to place along with food 
some rouble notes, in order that the departed may not be alto¬ 
gether without ready money on his entrance into the other world. 
GRAVES IN THE PRIMEVAL FOREST OF SIBERIA. 
(After a drawing by Hj. Tlieel.) 
Right opposite the village Nasimovskoj is a gold-digger’s 
deserted residence,” named Yermakova after the first con¬ 
queror of Siberia. The building owed its origin to the discovery 
of sand-beds rich in gold, occupying a pretty extensive area 
east of the Yenisej, which for a time had the repute of being 
the richest gold territory in the world. Here in a short 
time enormous fortunes were made; and accounts of the 
