. 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 ed against the current. Progress was very slow, but itwas safe, as there was no danger from exploding boilers or overheated fur-naces. As many as two hundred horses were sometimes employed bysingle barges. Our captain says that back from the river are many villages of Chera-mess, a people of Tartar origin, who preserve many of their ancient cus-toms. They are loyal subjects of the Government, and in nearly all theircottages one will find th
. 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 ed against the current. Progress was very slow, but itwas safe, as there was no danger from exploding boilers or overheated fur-naces. As many as two hundred horses were sometimes employed bysingle barges. Our captain says that back from the river are many villages of Chera-mess, a people of Tartar origin, who preserve many of their ancient cus-toms. They are loyal subjects of the Government, and in nearly all theircottages one will find the portraits of the Emperor and Empress. Inaccordance with their custom of veiling women, they hang a piece of thingauze over the portrait of the Empress. 286 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RISSL\N EMPIRE. The summer road between Kazan and Nijni is on tlie soutli bank ofthe river; the winter road is on the ice, and is marked with green boughsplaced in a double row, so that the road cannot be missed. These boughsare placed by the Administration of Eoads, and no one can travel on theice of the river until it has been officially declared safe. The south bank. TAKTAR VILLAGE NEAIl THE VOLGA. is quite abrupt, while on the north the country frequently stretches offin a level for a long distance. Most of the towns along the banks are saidto have been founded by John the Terrible in his expedition for the capt-ure of Kazan. We reached Kazan as promised soon after noon, and had the rest ofthe day for seeing the place. We were all ready when tlie boat touchedthe shore, and were off as soon as we secured a carriage. The city is aboutfive miles from the river, but we found the drive to it not at all uninter-esting. We passed through a suburb where a mosque and a church stand-ing close together symbolized the friendly relations between the Russianand Tartar inhabitants. Kazan is a handsome city with about sixty thousand inhabitants, ofwhom one-third are Tartars. We drove through the Tartar quarte
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