. 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 MAKING CALLS AKTKU A WKDDING. ferred to says that one of her nurse-maids left her to be married. A shorttime after the marriage she went to the ?ui</ialnik, or justice of the peace,of her village, and complained that her husband did not love her. Thenachalnik asked how she knew it, and the young wife replied, Because he has not whipped me once since we were married !Among the peasantry the married couple goes to the house of theowner of
. 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 MAKING CALLS AKTKU A WKDDING. ferred to says that one of her nurse-maids left her to be married. A shorttime after the marriage she went to the ?ui</ialnik, or justice of the peace,of her village, and complained that her husband did not love her. Thenachalnik asked how she knew it, and the young wife replied, Because he has not whipped me once since we were married !Among the peasantry the married couple goes to the house of theowner of the estate to receive his blessing. He comes to the door andwelcomes them as they bow in front of him till their foreheads nearlytouch the ground. The steamers whistle recalled the party, and in a little while theywere again on their voyage. Mr. Hegeman resumed the story of his ridethrough Siberia as soon as all were seated in their accustomed places. WEDDING FORxMALlTlES. 343. 344 THE BOY TRAVELLERS RUSSIAN EMPIRE. I think we were at Nertcliinsk, said he, when we turned aside tothe mines where the exiles were formerly employed. Yes, replied Fred ; yon had jnst arrived at tlie^ionse of the friendof your com2)anion, and accepted an invitation to remain for dinner. Tiiat was it, exactly, responded the traveller. We had an excel-lent dinner, and soon after it was over we continned on onr journey. AVesent back the tarantasse which we had liired from the station-master, andobtained a larger and better one from our host. Two nights and the intervening day brought us, without any incidentworth remembering, to Chetah, the capital of the province of the trans-Bai-kal. It is a town of four or five thousand inhabitants, and stands on theIngodah River, a tributary of the Shilka. Below this point the river isnavigal)le for boats and rafts, and it was here that General Mouraviefforganized the expedition for the corupiest of the Amoor. A considerablegarrison is kept
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