love story and an elopement--A pursuit, fight, and tragic end of the
journey

CHAPTER XLV.

Interview with a Persian officer--A slow conversation--Seven years of
captivity--A scientific explorer--Relics of past ages--An Asiatic
dinner--Cossack dances--Tossed up as a mark of honor--Trotting horses
in Siberia--Washing a paper collar--On the Baraba steppe--A
long-ride--A walking ice statue--Traveling by private
teams--Excitement of a race--How to secure honesty in a public
solicitor--Prescription for rheumatism

CHAPTER XLVI.

A monotonous country--Advantages of winter travel--Fertility of the
steppe--Rules for the haying season--Breakfasting on nothing--A
Siberian apple--Delays in changing horses--Universal tea
drinking--Tartars on the steppe--Siberian villages--Mode of spinning
in Russia--An unsuccessful conspiracy--How a revolt was organized--A
conspirator flogged to death--The city of Tobolsk--The story of
Elizabeth--The conquest of Siberia--Yermak and his career

CHAPTER XLVII.

Another snow storm--Wolves in sight--Unwelcome visitors--Going on a
wolf chase--An unlucky pig--Hunting at night--A hungry pack--Wolves in
every direction--The pursuers and the pursued--A dangerous turn in the
road--A driver lost and devoured--A narrow escape--Forest guards
against bears and wolves--A courageous horse--The story of David
Crockett

CHAPTER XLVIII

Thermometer very low--Inconvenience of a long beard--Fur clothing in
abundance--Natural thermometers--Rubbing a freezing nose--A beautiful
night on the steppe--Siberian twilights--Thick coat for horses--The
city of Tumen--Magnificent distances--Manufacture of carpets--A
lucrative monopoly--Arrival at Ekaterineburg--Christmas festivities
--Manufactures at Ekaterineburg--- The Granilnoi Fabric--Russian iron
and where it comes from--The Demidoff family--A large piece of
malachite--An emperor as an honest miner

CHAPTER XLIX.

Among the stone workers--A bewildering collection--Visit to a private
"Fabric"--The mode of stone cutting--Crossing the mountains--Boundary
between Europe and Asia--Standing in two continents at once--Entering
Europe by the back door--In the valley of the Kama--Touching appeal by
a beggar--The great fair at Irbit--An improved road--A city of
thieves--Tanning in Russia--Evidence of European
civilization--Perm--Pleasures of sleigh riding--The road fever--The
Emperor Nicholas and a courier--A Russian sleighing song

CHAPTER L.

Among the Votiaks--M