. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . ngs, andasthma, bronchitis, or consumption is the result. Duringthe winter also, fresh vegetable diet is very scarce. Thepeople preserve the cranberries, which grow so abun-dantly during the summer, but they are so improvidentthat they use the berries in their tea, so long as they last,and in spring, when the need for them is greatest, thestock is exhausted. There are no doctors. If thegovernment combined with the office of priest that ofdoctor some good might be effected. At present the 352
. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . ngs, andasthma, bronchitis, or consumption is the result. Duringthe winter also, fresh vegetable diet is very scarce. Thepeople preserve the cranberries, which grow so abun-dantly during the summer, but they are so improvidentthat they use the berries in their tea, so long as they last,and in spring, when the need for them is greatest, thestock is exhausted. There are no doctors. If thegovernment combined with the office of priest that ofdoctor some good might be effected. At present the 352 A BUSY WEEK ON THE KUREIKA priests are absolutely useless ; their offices, in the GreekChurch, are so mechanical that they might be performedalmost equally well by machinery. In many cases thepriests are worse than useless ; they have nothing todo, and, under the pretext of keeping certain days holy,they encourage the people in drinking to excess, and inidling away valuable time. Russia stands sorely in needof an Isaiah to proclaim the truth that the holy days andthe feast days are an abomination,. BRONZE FROM ANCIENT GRAVE NEAR KRASNOYARSK
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