The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-03-05

A RUSSIAN STORY

cOQ1urdI10US CI bl16 CEdlItn.
After cleaning out III which each one
took part, the fugitives established them
selves as best they could IN the kamakayS
tent. They kept their loaded weapons with
them in case of an offensive geturn. Tekel
and Chort succeeded each ether as se1ta-
nels. night and day. Wab also Was on
guard When TsegOr and NJ. I4afeur ven
tured out-of-deers, they went armed Ito the
teeth.
But the fugfdwes felt themselves serious
~ menaced by the hostile attitude ofthe'en-
tire tribe. They saw sOmbFe and irrftated
faces; the natives to when they addressed
a few words 'of politeness, learned from
Tekel did NOT Beply, silence among them
showing the height of discomfort, as now
of words is the effect @f anger among the
French
Soon the Partisan learned from Ann&Wa
who was very loquacious-that the ma
tives intended to reduce the intruders by
hunger.
The pretended chaman then resolved tc
deal a terrible blow. Aided by AnnaWa,
he fomented an instruction against the
kamakay and succeeded in ranging more
than half the warriors ON the side of the
spirit of which he announced the manifesto
tions.
This bold attempt was destined to have
cruel consequences for the kamakay. The
terrible chaman ordered the sacrifice OF
three white reindeer, and, as the flames de-
vOured the victims, he pronounced the de-
thronement of the chief and condemned him
to exile.
M Lafleur chose AnnaWa TO succeed the
kamakay, that abductor of young girls. This
was too clever a stroke of policy not TO be
crowned with complete success.
From the day following this solemn sac
rifce, Tchikine was no longer mentioned.
He had accepted his dethronement and fled
from his tribe, without even having the
power to take his wives and two slaves with
him.
ut was an act of justice" said Yermac
''What was the fool thinking of, who knew
not even that he was subject of the Gar
and as such amenable to the laws of the en-
pire?"
The chief of police wished first to convert
to his ideas and then to his uses the new
kamakay, Christian, and hOnored with an
imperial certificate, but M Lafeur looked
after this, and, as Telzel alone could serve as
interpreter Yermac was deprived Of the new
fertile mind.
The moment came at last when they could
resume their Journey It was with heart
felt Joy that Yegof, with Davidoff's charm
ing daughter beside him in one of the nartas,
quilted the tent where he had come to seek
her, with death in his soul, when, rejolned
by Ladislas, the guides, and Yermac, he
had learned in what spot the innocent girl
was grOaning and calling on him for help.
1t was necessary to find the course of the
AniOuy, which was not easy because of the
small knowledge of the country possessed
by the guides.
They went at first through pitiful looking
forests. New moss was commencing to
shoot up through the marshy soil. Upon the
hills flocks of marsh birds were already
showing themselves.
They reached some deserted camps of
TchOuktchi nOmads, recognizable mainly by
the black traces of the dimokOurs formed
of grass and moss which are set on fire IN
the summer to drive away, by the smoke
they spread around, the myriads of mosqui-
toes which torment men and animals during
the warm season.
In the larch thickets, the travellers chose
the spots where the trees were the most
scattered and at other times, took the rein
deer paths, for they were now in the region
of the reindeer Tchouktchis. On the bank
of a river they saw a number of traps for
zibellines and foxes, traps which seemed
to be abandoned. A little further on, they
discovered on the shore of a torrent an
enormous mammoth tusk, weighing over
one hundred pounds. 1t was so solidly en-
closed in the ice that they could not loosen
it.
Beyond the forest stretched out a vast
marshy plain, which seemed to have been
wooded.
The dogs advanced toilsomely amid new
fallen snow still soft or half melted by the
heat of the sun, and the everlasting ice Of
which the soil was formed.
In the evening the fugitives camped where
they found themselves. Nadege and Lad
islas always had their pOlogue erected. The
men slept in the nartas or on the snow.
In this concluding portion of their journey
were reproduced for YegOr and his compan-
ions, with less intensity, however, all the
dangers, all the suffering, and all the IA
tigues which had already marked its course
cold, elemental war, privations and attacks
of famished beasts.
But the days had heightened. With the
spring the birds had reappeared. The rein
deer, quitting the forests, returned to the
s sea coast to get rid of the mosquitoes New
plants offered some resources; among others
the saxifrages and the gentians were already
shooting up.
The snow seemed, here and there, veined
with blood, made rusty looking by the Itch
ems, or shaded with green and yellow by a
host of lrldimentarv crVDtOpamOuS DlantS
The roots of the creeping willow made a
very good seasoning for the reindeer meat;
the mice burrows furnished the farinaceous
root of the makarcha, and, to replace the
tea consumed to the last leaf, the fugitives
gathered certain moss from the green
granite which they mixed with sort of sro-
matte fern.
The chase had again become possible, and
they were able, especially, to hunt the wild
sheep and the reindeer. After having brok-
OH the icy crust of the rivers, they threw in
their net and caught in abundance the stur-
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