After wild sheep in the Altai and Mongolia; . an who gave himself out as Prince •, saying that he was travelling for his own pleasure. TheGeneral asked him to dinner, and found him adelightful companion. Some days later came areport that a dangerous convict had escaped fromthe galleys, and the visitor on being summoned toproduce his passport confessed that he could nolonger conceal his identity, and that he was theconvict of whom the police were in search, but thathe considered himself amply rewarded by theGovernors excellent dinner! At 2 we parted with General Lomatchevsky,who wished us
After wild sheep in the Altai and Mongolia; . an who gave himself out as Prince •, saying that he was travelling for his own pleasure. TheGeneral asked him to dinner, and found him adelightful companion. Some days later came areport that a dangerous convict had escaped fromthe galleys, and the visitor on being summoned toproduce his passport confessed that he could nolonger conceal his identity, and that he was theconvict of whom the police were in search, but thathe considered himself amply rewarded by theGovernors excellent dinner! At 2 we parted with General Lomatchevsky,who wished us success, and the steamer beganadvancing slowly up the Ob. We passed under themagnificent railway bridge over the broad river,leaving to our left the village of Nikolaevsky. This UP THE OB 31 village, owing- to its geographical position, had grownin a few months to considerable dimensions. Wherea year ago there were only a few stray huts, nearly20,000 inhabitants, chiefly colonists, had now takenup their abode, and the Government was on the. BRIDGE OVER THE OB. point of converting the place into a town. GeneralBoldyreff and the Ispravnik entertained us mostagreeably during the journey to Barnaoul, wherewe were due early on May 30th. The banks of the Ob presented on either side lowrolling steppes, mostly bare and cultivated land, butas we entered the vast Altai district pine forests and 32 AFTER WILD SHEEP IN THE ALTAI cedar woods were to be seen, and grew denser aswe advanced. Villages were extremely scarce, thesteamer calling only at four or five landing-placesduring the forty hours we were on board. Thedistance by land is much shorter, and takes aboutsixteen hours with good horses, but owing to thewide zigzags of the river and the comparatively slowpace at which we went against the strong- current,we could hardly expect to reach our destinationsooner. At the few stations where the steamer haltedI was struck by the beautiful sight of rock-cherrybushes in full bloom ; the bank
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