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These corpses are kept in a store-house belonging to the
local hospital, sometimes lying there for weeks before
legal investigations can be made, the hospital being only
occasionally visited by the physician. On one occasion, I
was told, the following incident took place. A corpse had
been found, and was sent by the chief of the police to
the store-house of the hospital. The physician, however,
refused to receive it and sent it back again, but the chief
of the police again returned it, and so it went its grisly
journey to and fro, until a compromise was effected
and it found a resting-place at length among the hospital
provisions!
At the time of our visit to Olekminsk the temperature
had risen to 66° Fahr. and, looking out over the green
fields, I found it hard to realise the fact that I was walking
on soil frozen to the depth of several hundreds of feet.
Having received its great tributary, the Olekma, the Lena
increases to the width of about two miles, and widens more
and more, until, at the city of Yakutsk, the distance between
the hills which form its valley is not much under twenty miles.
On our arrival at the city of Yakutsk the Governor
kindly conducted me to Marscha, a colony of the Skoptsi,
situated some four miles outside the city. We drove through
cultivated fields, granted by the government to the
Kossacks, but to a great extent rented and cultivated by the
Skoptsi. The meadows were bright with brilliant
spring-flowers, and the even and fresh green carpet of the sown
fields promised good crops. After half-an-hour’s drive
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