Revelations of Siberia, Том 2Colburn and Company, 1853 |
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... dinner siesta , and began gradually to steal away , till at last all took leave . I was not at all sorry when I saw myself alone ; for this feasting , be it remem- bered by the reader , took place at our lodgings 8 REVELATIONS.
... dinner siesta , and began gradually to steal away , till at last all took leave . I was not at all sorry when I saw myself alone ; for this feasting , be it remem- bered by the reader , took place at our lodgings 8 REVELATIONS.
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... leaves home on a journey during winter , his travelling dress consists , in addition to the malca and the parka , of a third garment , much more capacious than the others , and which is likewise made of reindeer skin , with a hood for ...
... leaves home on a journey during winter , his travelling dress consists , in addition to the malca and the parka , of a third garment , much more capacious than the others , and which is likewise made of reindeer skin , with a hood for ...
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... leaving a single trace of a wound . These wonder - workers can also chop all the limbs off a body , and then restore them uninjured . I was told that they burnt Russian paper - money before a number of spectators , and afterwards picked ...
... leaving a single trace of a wound . These wonder - workers can also chop all the limbs off a body , and then restore them uninjured . I was told that they burnt Russian paper - money before a number of spectators , and afterwards picked ...
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... leaves ; and to divert observation from the spot , proceeds to some distance to pasture . It is a matter of no small difficulty to bring the fugitive back , when she has once effected her escape . Concealed in some retired spot she ...
... leaves ; and to divert observation from the spot , proceeds to some distance to pasture . It is a matter of no small difficulty to bring the fugitive back , when she has once effected her escape . Concealed in some retired spot she ...
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... leaving deep apertures be- hind , not only disagreeable to look at , but which might have caused a serious accident , particularly as we were the first who had ven- tured on the river , and no sledge had passed that way before us . I ...
... leaving deep apertures be- hind , not only disagreeable to look at , but which might have caused a serious accident , particularly as we were the first who had ven- tured on the river , and no sledge had passed that way before us . I ...
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afterwards amidst animals appeared Arctic Ocean arrived assignat banks bear began Berezovians birds black fox boat brought Brun called ceremony church cold colours CONNAUGHT RANGERS Cossack costume Count Tolstoy covered custom dance distance doors dress ducks elder brother eyes felt fish forest friends frost frozen functionary garment hair hand happened head herds hunter inhabitants Irbit fair Josephine journey lady larch light look Lysa Gora Madame Madame X manner masks means ment mirror narta natives never night Obdorsk obliged observed occasion Ostiaks party person police possessed post 8vo present Prince reindeer skin river round rubles Russian Samoied scarcely season seen Shaitan Shaman Siberia sledges snow solemn soon Soswa spirits spot spring Surgut tchoum tion Tobolsk took town tribes Wakulinski wataka Waul white reindeer whole wife winter young yourta
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Стр. 281 - ... these northern latitudes, or the sun, notwithstanding its obliquity, acts more powerfully upon it than near the equator ; for I have never felt its direct rays so oppressive within the tropics as I have experienced them to be on some occasions in the high latitudes. The luxury of bathing at such times is not without alloy ; for, if you choose the mid-day, you are assailed in the water by the Tabani, who draw blood in an instant with their formidable lancets ; and if you select the morning or...
Стр. 280 - The power of the sun, this day, in a cloudless sky, was so great, that Mr. Rae and I were glad to take shelter in the water while the crews were engaged on the portages. The irritability of the human frame is either greater in these northern latitudes, or the sun, notwithstanding its obliquity, acts more powerfully upon it than near the equator ; for I have never felt its direct rays so oppressive within the tropics as I have experienced them to be on some occasions in the high latitudes.