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climate as Siberia. To alleviate this misery a noble band
of self-sacrificing volunteers are at work at the several
“emigration-points,” and large sums of money are also
assigned by the authorities for relief; but all this work is like
emptying the sea with a bucket, for tens of thousands are
every year carried off by want, exposure, and epidemics.
A strip of land 100 versts wide alongside the railroad is
entirely set apart for colonisation, and the emigrants settling
there seem to be best cared for.
Of the towns of Kurgan, Petropavlovsk, and Omsk,
situated respectively on the rivers Tobol, Ischim, and Irtish,
we could see only the spires of the churches and the
roofs of the highest buildings, for the line always runs at a
distance of some versts from the towns. The last named
town, Omsk, is the most important, not only as “the capital
of the steppes,” but also for its situation on the river
Irtish, which puts it in communication with China, and
thus promises it a great future as a commercial centre.
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