. Review of reviews and world's work . Miss KATE MARSDEN. not to fall into the bog, from which it would havebeen very difficult to extricate any one alive. Before starting from Yakoutsk, the bishop of thetown came out in full canonicals and gave theexpedition his solemn benediction. They startedabout midsummers day in 1891, carrying with themabout three months provisions—that is to say,they had dry black bread, tea and sugar. Theyhad tents for camping out, but at first they usedthe official resting-places. Miss Marsdens accountof the kind of accommodation provided for wearytravelers in the for
. Review of reviews and world's work . Miss KATE MARSDEN. not to fall into the bog, from which it would havebeen very difficult to extricate any one alive. Before starting from Yakoutsk, the bishop of thetown came out in full canonicals and gave theexpedition his solemn benediction. They startedabout midsummers day in 1891, carrying with themabout three months provisions—that is to say,they had dry black bread, tea and sugar. Theyhad tents for camping out, but at first they usedthe official resting-places. Miss Marsdens accountof the kind of accommodation provided for wearytravelers in the forest of Villewisk will prob-ably induce all weary travelers to give that prov-ince a wide berth. The walls were carpeted w^thbugs, the floors were alive with lice, while fleas skip-ped gayly about. The air was thick with mosquitoes. 180 THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS,. A LEPER IN THE SIBERIAN SNOWS. AKINGS DAUGHTER AMONG THE LEPERS OF SIBERIA. 181 In some cases they were only able to escape the tor-tures of the mosquitoes by building a fire of cowsdung in the center of the room, shutting the windowsand chimney in order that the smoke might notescape. By this means the plague of mosquitoes wasabated for the night, although the stench wasalmost intolerable. The insects were not the onlycreatures which occupied the tenement; cows andoxen were stabled with the men and women who oc-cupied the room. Such nights w^ere so terrible thatit was almost a relief to plunge into the deepest partsof the forest where at present the lepers live. Thenight horrors at least made welcome the daylight,although it brought another sixty or seventy milesride through the sun and bog and forest, where theplague of mosquitoes was unabated, and where fromtime to time the cavalcade had to draw in and feelfor its firearms in order to prepare for an attackfrom the bears. Miss Marsd
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