. 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 sk to Krasnoyarsk, wasmade over more bare ground than snow. In some places we had five orsix horses to each carriage, and even then our progress was slow. Fort-unately it became cold again, but the sky was cloudless; we longed forsnow to cover the ground and improve the condition of the roads. The last morninof we took breakfast at a station fiftv versts from :374 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. Krasnoyarsk, and learned tliat for
. 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 sk to Krasnoyarsk, wasmade over more bare ground than snow. In some places we had five orsix horses to each carriage, and even then our progress was slow. Fort-unately it became cold again, but the sky was cloudless; we longed forsnow to cover the ground and improve the condition of the roads. The last morninof we took breakfast at a station fiftv versts from :374 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. Krasnoyarsk, and learned tliat for the last thirty versts before reachingthe city there was absolutely no snow. Yery curiously the snow extendedup to the door of the station, and disappeared not more than a yard be-yond it! Looking one way there was bare ground ; looking the otherthe road was good for sleighing. Over cakes and tea we arranged our programme, which resulted in theladies leaving their vashok until their return to Irkutsk, and riding intotown on a telega. My sleigh and the other were unloaded, the baggagewas piled into telegas, the sleighs were mounted on wagons which we. VIEW OK KUASNOVAUSlv THE OlPOSIiE BANK OE TUE YEMSEI. hired from the peasants, and with very little trouble the whole difficultywas adjusted. Altogether we were not at the station more than an hour,and at least half that time was taken for lunch. Fred asked how it hai>pened that there was good sleighing in one direc-tion and hardly any snow in the other. It is a climatic peculiarity, Mr. liegeman explained, and is not con-tined to that locality. You remember I. mentioned Chetah, the first pro-vincial capital as you go west from the Amoor Eiver. At Chetah very A RUSSIAN SLEIGHING-SONG. 375 little snow falls in the winter, and sometimes for the entire year wheelsmust be used. Krasnoyarsk is in the valley of the Yenisei River, and theytold me that very little snow falls within twenty miles of the town, and insome winters none
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