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depths, and the wanderer penetrating into its dark recesses
is overpowered by its mysterious gloom and majesty.
Only when you travel through it on the iron track behind
the all-subduing iron horse, which hinders all intimate
intercourse with nature and destroys all poetry, you do not
feel its conquering power. But it is otherwise when you
are in close touch with it. I have travelled through the
taiga in the summer some 500 miles in a tarantass. I
have followed the course of the gigantic Lena through it
for three thousand miles to the Arctic Ocean, and for twelve
hundred miles and more I have sledged through its gloomy
depths in winter. In the bright summer Arctic nights I
have wandered through it in search of the mossy graves
of the Shamans. And everywhere I have felt the
powerful influence and fascination it exerts.
It is a clear spring evening on the upper Lena. In the
indefinite light of the Arctic spring we direct our steps from
the river into the huge forest. All is dark and gloomy.
Only a few streaks of pale, cold light filter through the
dark green vault of thick branches. We are in a world of
big and rugged cedars, dark Siberian spruces, the stately
pyramids of the northern pine and the Siberian larch-tree,
the belle of these northern forests. In front of us looms
a wall of dark pine which we with great difficulty penetrate,
making our way through the under-brush over moist green
moss and trunks of fallen trees. At length we come to a
small river forming an opening in the dark wall, which
again closes behind us to hide its secret. Around us is
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