. 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 travellers took to our sleiffhs and went coni-es fortably to sleep, while our horses dashed gayly over the smooth road. For the first fifty miles after leaving Irkutsk the road follows thebank of the Angara ; at times we were close to the dark waters, and neverfar away from them. A dense fog, or frost-cloud, lay on the river; thenight was cold, and the moisture congealed on everything where it could TRAVELLING IN THE FROST. 36: find a resti
. 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 travellers took to our sleiffhs and went coni-es fortably to sleep, while our horses dashed gayly over the smooth road. For the first fifty miles after leaving Irkutsk the road follows thebank of the Angara ; at times we were close to the dark waters, and neverfar away from them. A dense fog, or frost-cloud, lay on the river; thenight was cold, and the moisture congealed on everything where it could TRAVELLING IN THE FROST. 36: find a resting-place. In tlierunning portion was white wfrom the canvas and mattingstalactite or a stalagmite, andoxydized silver. Horses wereand even the garments of thecongelation. Many times afterwardsthe work of the frost-king. morning every part of my sleigh save theith hoar-frost. Each little libre projectingthat formed the cover had been turned to athe head of every nail and bolt resembledwhite without regard to their natural color,drivers had come in for their share of the I had occasion to remark the beauties ofHouses and fences were cased in ice, its. >^A^/^ C^)k ^^ ^^ WORK OF THE FROST-KING. thickness varying with the condition of the weather. Trees and busheswere covered with crystals, and in the morning sunlight they sparkled asthough coated with diamonds. Sometimes the trees resembled fountainscaught and frozen when in full action. The pictured delineations of thefrost had all the varieties of the kaleidoscope, but without its colors. During the night I slept well, in sj^ite of several severe thumps re-ceived from sleighs going in the other direction. Russian sleighs are so 368 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSL\N EMPIRE. built that two of tliem can run together with considerable force withoutserious consequences. Look at the picture of a vashok and you will un-derstand it. The runners are about thirty inches apart, and generally shod withiron. On each side there is a fender,
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