Tent Life in Siberia: And Adventures Among the Koraks and Other Tribes in Kamtchatka and Northern AsiaG.P. Putnam & Sons, 1870 - 425 páginas Author's experiences in Kamchatka and neighboring regions when working on Siberian sector of projected Western Union telegraph link across Bering Strait, 1865-67. |
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American Amoor River Anadyr River Anadyrsk Arctic Arctic Circle Arctic Ocean arrival band barque bear-skins began Behring's Straits blue Bush camp canoes Chookchees clouds coast cold Cossack crawled dark dense desolate distance Dodd dog-sledges dogs drifting excitement face feet finally fire fish frozen fur clothes Gamsk Geezhega half head heavy horses hundred inhabitants Ispravnik journey Kamtchadals Kamtchatka land Leet Lesnoi living looked Major Abasa ment miles morning moss mountains mouth natives nearly never night Northeastern Siberia o'clock Okhotsk Sea ourselves party passed peaks peninsula Penzhina Petropavlovski poles pologs priest ravine reached reindeer Russian Samanka seal-skin seemed settlement shouted Siberia side sledges sleep smoke snow snowy soon Starosta steppe storm suddenly Telegraph tent Tigil tion trailing pine twenty valley Varag versts vessels Viliga village volcano Vushine Wandering Koraks weather whale-boat whole wild wind winter yourt
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