e taking refuge in the plains of the north. Some tribes of the wandering Kirghiz, who remained faithful,UGG Bailey Button Czyścibut 5809, had transported their tents beyond the Irtych, to escape the depredations of the invaders.
Happily,Portland Timbers Drakt, post traveling was as yet uninterrupted; and telegraphic communication could still be effected between places connected with the wire. At each relay horses were to be had on the usual conditions. At each telegraphic station the clerks transmitted messages delivered to them, delaying for State dispatches alone.
Thus far, then, Michael’s journey had been accomplished satisfactorily. The courier of the Czar had in no way been impeded; and, if he could only get on to Krasnoiarsk, which seemed the farthest point attained by Feofar-Khan’s Tartars, he knew that he could arrive at Irkutsk,Duvetica Ženy Ace Padded, before them. The day after the two carriages had left Ekaterenburg they reached the small town of Toulouguisk at seven o’clock in the morning, having covered two hundred and twenty versts,Moncler Mengs, no event worthy of mention having occurred. The same evening, the 22d of July, they arrived at Tioumen.
Tioumen,Męskie Barbour A7 Brass Kurtka, whose population is usually ten thousand inhabitants, then contained double that number. This, the first industrial town established by the Russians in Siberia, in which may be seen a fine metal-refining factory and a bell foundry,Moncler Tinuviel, had never before presented such an animated appearance. The correspondents immediately went off after news. That brought by Siberian fugitives from the seat of war was far from reassuring. They said, amongst other things,Classic Tall Czyścibut 5815, that Feofar-Khan’s army was rapidly approaching the valley of the Ichim,AC Milan Drakt, and they confirmed the report that the Tartar chief was soon to be joined by Colonel Ogareff,Manu Ginobili Drakter, if he had not been so already. Hence the conclusion was that operations would be pushed in Eastern Siberia with the greatest activity. However, the loyal Cossacks of the government of Tobolsk were advancing by forced marches towards Tomsk, in the hope of cutting off the Tartar columns.
At midnight the town of Novo-Saimsk was reached; and the travelers now left behind them the country broken by tree-covered hills, the last remains of the Urals.
Here began the regular Siberian steppe which extends to the neighborhood of Krasnoiarsk. It is a boundless plain, a vast grassy desert; earth and sky here form a circle as distinct as that traced by a sweep of the compasses. The steppe presents nothing to attract notice but the long line of the telegraph posts, their wires vibrating in the breeze like the strings of a harp. The road could be distinguished from the rest of the plain only by the clouds of fine dust which rose under the wheels of the tarantass. Had it not been for this white riband,Yokohama F Marinos Drakt, which stretched away as far as the eye could reach,Twister Yd, the travelers might have thought themselves in a desert.
Michael and his companions again pressed rapidly forward. The horses, urged on by the iemschik,Wayne Rooney Drakt, seemed to fly over the ground, for there was not the slightest obstacle to impede them. The tarantass was going straight for Ichim, whe
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