d not hit the
pills as hard as the doughboys. They left Onega June 5th, by steamboat
for Economia Island and left Russia June 15th.

XXI

ICE-BOUND ARCHANGEL

Ferry Boat Fights Ice--Archangel Cosmopolitan--Bartering For
Eats--Strange Wood Famine--Entertainment At American
Headquarters--Doughboy Minstrelsy--Reindeer Teams--Russian
Eskimo--Bolshevik Prisoners--S. B. A. L. Mutiny--Major Young's Scare At
Smolny--Shakleton Boots--British Rations For Yank Soldiers--Corporal
Knight Writes Humorous Sketch Of Ice-Bound Archangel.

On the ferry boat the troops speculated whether or not we would get
stuck in the ice before we could cross the river to Archangel Preestin.
It was November 22nd, 1918. The Dvina ran under glass. On the streets of
Archangel sleighs were slipping. Winter was on and Archangel in a few
days would be ice-bound. For a few days more the ice-breakers would keep
the ferry going across the Dvina and would cut for the steamships a way
out to sea. Then the White Sea would freeze solid for six months. In a
few days the Archangel-Economia winter railroad would be running.
Icebreakers would for a while brave the Arctic gales that swept the
north coast. Then they would surrender and the great white silence would
begin.

Varied and interesting are the tales that are told of that winter in
Archangel. They are descriptive as well as narrative but there is not
much coherence to the chapter. However, to the soldiers who were there,
or who were out and in Archangel during the winter of 1918-19 this
chapter will be pleasing.

In from a far-off front for a few days rest, or in on some mission such
as the bringing of Bolshevik prisoners or to get some of the company
property which had been left behind when in the fall the troops left
troopships so hurriedly, these groups of American soldiers from the
fighting fronts always found Archangel of interest. They found that it
was a half-modern, half-oriental city, half-simple, half-wicked, with
the gay along with the drab, with bright lights along with the gloom.

In Archangel were all kinds of people--whiskered moujiks beating their
ponies along the snow-covered streets, sleek-looking people of the
official class, well-dressed men and women of cultured appearance, young
women whose faces were pretty and who did not wear boots and shawls but
dressed attractively and seemed to enjoy the attention of doughboys, and
soldiers of several nations, veterans of war and adventur