. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . y screams and yells. When we left Silovanoff we were minus one passenger,Michael Susloff, the secondpriest of Turukansk, by farthe most active and intelli-gent Russian I had met. Hewas sent by the Archbishopto visit the Ostiaks on theTaz, and was busy writinga report for his promised me a copyof it. It contained muchinterestino ethnological in-formation, and a number ofvaluable historical facts re-garding the ancient town ofMangaze, extracted from the archives of
. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . y screams and yells. When we left Silovanoff we were minus one passenger,Michael Susloff, the secondpriest of Turukansk, by farthe most active and intelli-gent Russian I had met. Hewas sent by the Archbishopto visit the Ostiaks on theTaz, and was busy writinga report for his promised me a copyof it. It contained muchinterestino ethnological in-formation, and a number ofvaluable historical facts re-garding the ancient town ofMangaze, extracted from the archives of told me that he did his best to prevent a rupturebetween the late Zessedatel and Wiggins and Schwanen-berg when the two captains passed through Turukanskin the previous autumn, but the Blagachina and thePostmaster egged them on for private reasons of theirown; Sotnikoff and Ivanoff were also among theconspirators for obvious considerations. At the monastery the Blagachina of Turukansk cameon board to install his mother as a passenger on theship; he was, however, so inebriated that he could hardly. OF squirrels SKINS 448 BY STEAMER TO YENESEISK speak, and he speedily left without taking leave either ofKitmanoff or of myself. We did not ijet a chance of ooingr on shore till latethe following evening, when it was too dark to and I had a long talk about Siberia, and theanomalous facts in its domestic history. It presents thespectacle of a healthy race of people, living in a healthybecause dry climate, continually replenished by emigrantsand exiles, and yet the population remaining almoststationary ; a country with capabilities of becomingrich beyond the dreams of avarice continuing affirms that scarcely one merchant in ten in it issolvent, and that not one bank in ten could pay morethan ten shillings in the pound if wound up. Thequestion arises, to what cause is this extraordinary stateof things to be attributed ? Boiling ascribed it all to theQ-ol
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