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Leaving the Yenisei we ran for a long distance through
the exceedingly lovely valley of Beresovka with its natural
parks and charming meadows, surrounded by picturesque
mountains. Soon, however, the train again plunges into
the mysterious and gloomy taiga, which, only here and
there broken by a river, and the two little towns, Khansk
and Nishni Udinsk, continues to the present terminus of
traffic at Tulun, and for hundreds of miles beyond.
From Tulun to Irkutsk there remained a distance of
about 250 miles for us to travel by means of horses. A
large number of passengers and piles of goods were crowded
into the former place, waiting for conveyance eastward,
and we also had to stay here for three days in
consequence, and would have had to wait still longer had we
not met with such cordial help from some of the engineers.
Having bought a tarantass (a long travelling coach with
wooden springs) and two telegas or carts for our equipment,
we left Tulun, accompanied by a man going to Irkutsk,
who had been recommended to us to serve as a kind of
guide and as guard of our equipment. In Siberia etiquette
forbids all inquiries as to a person’s previous history,
but I understood that there had been some kind of hitch in
our guide’s career, and our experience proved that there
were still some defects in his conception of the difference
between mine and thine.
We now exchanged the rail and steam for the small but
tough Siberian post-horse, and started eastward on the
great historical Siberian road, which during more than two
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