. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. he sea-crossing, andin fine weather it is enough. Coming back we took forty, forthere was a wind and sea that at times made us think it wouldhave been safer, after all, to be in old-fashioned Central Asia, tosay nothing of the man we lost overboard. Going East, however,the Caspian was like a pond, and on the crowded decks, with theirconspicuous division of quarters for Men, Women, and 230 ALL THE RUSSIAS Persians/ happiness reigned, and everybody ate sunflower-seeds and bre
. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. he sea-crossing, andin fine weather it is enough. Coming back we took forty, forthere was a wind and sea that at times made us think it wouldhave been safer, after all, to be in old-fashioned Central Asia, tosay nothing of the man we lost overboard. Going East, however,the Caspian was like a pond, and on the crowded decks, with theirconspicuous division of quarters for Men, Women, and 230 ALL THE RUSSIAS Persians/ happiness reigned, and everybody ate sunflower-seeds and brewed tea. The oily reek of Baku was far behind,the Caspian was as still as a lake, and at last the little paddle-boatturned sharply round a sand-spit and brought into view a hun-dred flat white houses, scattered at the foot of converging barebrown hills, like a few crystals of sugar at the bottom of a browncup, and we were at Krasnovodsk— Red Water, though whyso called I cannot tell, for there is no fresh water there at all,except what they produce every day in the big distillery, and thesea is a deep Italian
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