. 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 DESCENDING A HILL-SIDE ROAD. consecrates to baptismal ceremonies, and throughout the Empire manythousands of devout worshippers are plunged into the icy water. We didnot stop to witness the ceremony, but caught a glimpse of a priest readingfrom a book, while another was holding by the liands a man whose headjust rose above the surface of the water. As fast as the baptized onesemerged from the hole through the ice they ran rapidly to tlie vi
. 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 DESCENDING A HILL-SIDE ROAD. consecrates to baptismal ceremonies, and throughout the Empire manythousands of devout worshippers are plunged into the icy water. We didnot stop to witness the ceremony, but caught a glimpse of a priest readingfrom a book, while another was holding by the liands a man whose headjust rose above the surface of the water. As fast as the baptized onesemerged from the hole through the ice they ran rapidly to tlie village, ashort distance away. A LONG SLEIGH-EIDE. 401 There at last are the domes of Nijni Novgorod, and there I say fare-well to my sleigh. I have passed two hundred and nine stations, with as many changes. BAPTIZING THROUGH THE ICE. of horses and drivers. More than seven hundred horses have been attachedto my sleigh, and drawn me over a road of all degrees of goodness andbadness. In forty days from Irkutsk I have spent sixteen in the townsand villages on the way. I have slept twenty-six nights in my sleigh, withthe thermometer varying all the way from 35° above zero to 44° below,and have passed through four severe storms and perhaps a dozen smallones. Including the detour to Barnaool, my sleigh-ride was thirty-six hun-dred miles long. From Stratensk around by Kiaclita to Irkutsk I trav-elled about fourteen hundred miles in wheeled vehicles, so that altogethermy land journey from the steamboat at Stratensk to the railway at Xijnicovers a distance of five thousand miles. And now, said Mr. Hegeman, in conclusion, if you want to crossSiberia you can do it more easily than when I made the journey. From 26 402 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSL\N EMPHIE. Perm, M-liich you can reach by steamboa
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