. A summer on the Yenesei (1914) . A SUMMER ON THE YENESEI 165 new lodging, for, kind and hospitable as the Antonoffswere, we could not occupy their bakehouse Petrovitch himself was to go to Krasnoyarskin the TuruJchansk to sell his furs, and during hisabsence, the house was to be rebuilt and is true that we had brought a tent with us, butGolchika is the w^orst place in the world for camping,and its flat, boggy shores, under their covering of snow,looked most uninviting. At this juncture, how^ever,Prokopchuk came forward with a proposal. On themainland, half-wa


. A summer on the Yenesei (1914) . A SUMMER ON THE YENESEI 165 new lodging, for, kind and hospitable as the Antonoffswere, we could not occupy their bakehouse Petrovitch himself was to go to Krasnoyarskin the TuruJchansk to sell his furs, and during hisabsence, the house was to be rebuilt and is true that we had brought a tent with us, butGolchika is the w^orst place in the world for camping,and its flat, boggy shores, under their covering of snow,looked most uninviting. At this juncture, how^ever,Prokopchuk came forward with a proposal. On themainland, half-way between his house and the mouthof the river, stood a disused bathhouse, which at onetime had belonged to his workmen. With a littlealteration it was turned into a capital hut, and a fewdays later we moved into it. The hut stood on the mainland, about half a verstup the left arm of the Golchika River. From the dooryou could see everything that went on in every cornerof the settlement. If you turned to the left, and lookeddown the


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