. The life and voyages of Joseph Wiggins; modern discoverer of the Kara Sea route to Siberia, based on his journals & letters . RISSIAX EXILK*. (;UVKH.\.MKM llltl SK AM> MUNASTKRV. T<lll(ir,SK. AM) I TR ATINfJ(M ( riATKlNS UK IIIK (Drawn hv a exile.) [To/acej). 179. viii] THEN AND NOW 179 and reindeer they possess in abundance. There isa plentiful supply of berries—even splendid blackand red currants, as large as the largest that Ihave ever seen in England. Thus Nature suppliesa most precious anti - scorbutic, and the peoplehave the sense to appreciate th
. The life and voyages of Joseph Wiggins; modern discoverer of the Kara Sea route to Siberia, based on his journals & letters . RISSIAX EXILK*. (;UVKH.\.MKM llltl SK AM> MUNASTKRV. T<lll(ir,SK. AM) I TR ATINfJ(M ( riATKlNS UK IIIK (Drawn hv a exile.) [To/acej). 179. viii] THEN AND NOW 179 and reindeer they possess in abundance. There isa plentiful supply of berries—even splendid blackand red currants, as large as the largest that Ihave ever seen in England. Thus Nature suppliesa most precious anti - scorbutic, and the peoplehave the sense to appreciate this gift, for theystore the fruit for winter use. Other foods theyobtain from the steamers trading on the river. True it is that in times past the sufferingsof the poor exiles, when on their way from theirnative land to these then inhospitable regions,must have been terrible, marched, as they were,in gangs of hundreds, composed of whole differentfamihes—the delicate and aged grand - parents,the mothers with their weakly and tender childrenand infants, the sick and infirm—all compelledto walk the entiie distance, along the terriblean
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