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| CHAPTER I.—TO THE GATE OF SIBERIA | 1 |
| The Object of our Journey—Polar Expeditions of 1898—The
Vega-Stipendium and our Party—In St. Petersburg—The Crowding at the Gate—Emigration Statistics—Talks with the Mujiks. | |
| CHAPTER II.—THE STEPPES OF WESTERN SIBERIA | 11 |
| The Siberian Train—The West Siberian Lowlands—A Dreary
Plain—Life on the Train—Lying as a Pastime—Dinner by the Way—The Kirgises—Colonisation of the Akmolinsk Steppe—Miseries of the Emigrants. | |
| CHAPTER III.—IN THE HEART OF SIBERIA | 25 |
| The Press in Siberia—Robberies and Murders—The
“Podsnieshniks”—The Ob Bridge—Poskotina and Zaimki—Development of the Communal System—The New-comer and the old Settler—We Reach Tomsk. | |
| CHAPTER IV.—THROUGH THE FOREST-REGION | 34 |
| Krasnoyarsk and the Yenisei—Delayed at Tulun—By Tarantass on the
Old Siberian Road—The Taiga—Its Influence on the Settler—Bad Characters—The typical Siberian Village—Its Inhabitants—A Night Adventure. | |
| CHAPTER V.—OVER THE BURIATIC STEPPE | 48 |
| In Irkutsk—Buriat Villages—History of the
Buriats—Communism—Shamanism—Buddhist Missionaries—The “Buriatisation” of the Russians—Dorschi Bantsaroff—A Gifted Race. | |
| CHAPTER VI.—THE UPPER LENA | 57 |
| Katschùga and Schigàlova—Steamers on the River—Pauski—We
commence our Voyage—Configuration of the Lena Valley—Its Size and its Tributaries—Scenery—Ust Kutsk and its History—“Gold Barons” on the Steamer—Kirensk. | |
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