. Siberia and the exile system. eroffor dinner, spent an hour or two in conversation, and de-voted the remainder of the evening to writing up note-books and completing sketches. Friday morning, November 20th, we bade Mr. Nesterofand Lieutenant-colonel Saltstein good-by, and set out withtwo horses, a small uncomfortable telega, and a fresh supplyof provisions for the village and mine of Kadaiya, distantfrom Algachi about ninety miles. The weather was stillvery cold, the road ran through the same dreary, desolatesea of snow-covered mountains that surrounds the mineof Algachi, and for two days we
. Siberia and the exile system. eroffor dinner, spent an hour or two in conversation, and de-voted the remainder of the evening to writing up note-books and completing sketches. Friday morning, November 20th, we bade Mr. Nesterofand Lieutenant-colonel Saltstein good-by, and set out withtwo horses, a small uncomfortable telega, and a fresh supplyof provisions for the village and mine of Kadaiya, distantfrom Algachi about ninety miles. The weather was stillvery cold, the road ran through the same dreary, desolatesea of snow-covered mountains that surrounds the mineof Algachi, and for two days we neither saw nor heardanything of particular interest. At half-past eleven oclockFriday night, tired, hungry, and half frozen, we reachedthe village of Dono, forty-six miles from Algachi; Satur- 308 SIBERIA day afternoon we passed the Kutomarski Zavod, where westopped for two or three hours to examine the smeltingworks; and early Sunday morning, after having travelednearly all night at the expense of not a little suffering from. cold and hunger, we finally reached the miserable, forlornmining village of Kadaiya, found the zemski Iwartir, and assoon as we could warm and refresh ourselves a little withtea went promptly to bed—Mr. Frost on top of the largebrick oven, and I on the floor. THE SILVEE MINES OF NERCHINSK 309 About ten oclock Sunday forenoon we got up, somewhatrested and refreshed, and after a hasty and rather unsatis-factory breakfast of bread and tea went out into the broad,snowy, and deserted street of the village—Mr. Frost tomake a sketch, and I to find the ustdvshchik, or officer incharge of the mine. The Kadainski mine, which is one of the oldest and mostextensive silver mines in the Nerchinsk district, is situatedon the side of a bold, steep, round-topped mountain about300 yards from the village and 200 or 300 feet above it. Ithas been worked for more than a century, and was at onetime very productive; but the richest veins of ore in ithave been exhausted, an
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