. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across A MIXING SIXGEU. 36 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN GLtXK-ALF! arch of red fire, and as we did so the words Gliick-aiif! Gliick-auf! wereshouted from all around, and at the same time flashes of fire burst from adozen places above the lake. We shouted ^ Gliick-auf! in reply, and thenthe voices from the mysterious recesses seemed to be quadrupled in num-ber and volume. The air was filled with flashes of light, and was every-where r
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across A MIXING SIXGEU. 36 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN GLtXK-ALF! arch of red fire, and as we did so the words Gliick-aiif! Gliick-auf! wereshouted from all around, and at the same time flashes of fire burst from adozen places above the lake. We shouted ^ Gliick-auf! in reply, and thenthe voices from the mysterious recesses seemed to be quadrupled in num-ber and volume. The air was filled with flashes of light, and was every-where resonant with the words of the miners welcome. At the other end of the lake there was a considerable party waitingto receive us, and of course there was a liberal distribution of coin to ev-erybody. I ought to have said at the outset that we arranged to j^ay for FESTIVAL IN THE MINE. 37 the illumination of the lake and also of certain specified halls, in additionto the compensation of the guides. The illuminations are entirely pro-portioned to the amount that the visitors are willing to give for them. Itis a good plan to unite with other visitors, and then the individual costwill hot be heavy. Twenty dollars wil
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