The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25

footsteps until at length they came to spot
the shadows deepest.
"See,' she said "his is where entered, underneath
the palisade. Help with the earth"
Together they fell the earth at the bottom OF
the palisade scraped at and dogs WILL
delving deeper until they to the woodwork
itself and the points of the logs which barely admitted
Of their egress Thru all this they tumbled and came
out in the ditch the other SIDE where three feet OF
stagnant waded thru. Georges
historical for ali he could say was simply: oiga olga
olga" But she, his WIFE, seemed possessed of the
energy and the enterprise of more than man.
ITO the AngaraH'3 she whispered, almost fercely TO
along until the open country reached Then they
sped the hillocks of sand which separated them
from the banks until they could hear the ice
it swept down, crashing and splintering in mid
stream They to the edge of the river and here
water.
There is boat here she said IT know it
WELL We must take it, and then
IT understand, Olga" "The Angara,
the Yenesei. Oh, my wife!" @r~
AS fast they could they went the river to
where proved boat moored to the side. There
sign life, of disturbance Into the
edst the goa o ene ] h no get
out the pulled towards mids stream right into
the midst of the pack ice, in which they
wedged, and with which, part, they whirled
along.
The Angara is one of the fastest flowing rivers
Siberia It is the only outlet of the great Lake Baika
the highest fresh water lake in the whole world The
lake enpties itself eighty
east of Irkutsk, opening afterwards into broad, but
swiftly flowing stream, traversng the mountains Of the
Ikutsk province until falls nto the Yenesei by Yeni
ses From Irkutsk to Yenseisk there five sets OF
rapids, rendered in early spring all the
gerous by the of broken ice foated of the
Baikal. What adventure what an enterprise, then,
that of Oga But she heitated and her husband
hesitated They had food, they had but the
icecold water drink they hurried
ing bindly in Providence for their safety, but deter
mined that if they they would die in each
When morning dawned they found themselves trav-
erng country wild desolate. Georges managed to
ana zearched in the thick undergToh for root.
and for the wild red berry of which the siberians
large quantities was successful his quest
and brought quite quantity Of such food back the
boat Then on again That same afternoon they struck
over them safely The second rapid was taken in the
middle Of the night the second day after
escaping the prison the rapid been
It was here that Olga overcome by her exertions
fell sick and Georges was compelled to take sole control
caused the collapse of his wife, and maddened at this
he steered bank, and spying distance off the
smoke OF habitaon made for it and surprised party
man. hair disheveled his convict clothes covered in
mud The natives started to their feet but they had to
with a the desperation of his situa-
ton He gesticulated he beseeched, he threw his
about him until the Buriats, the veriest towards on
There birds and hares and he tucked them under
his and fed like deer for the boat while the Bu
RATS seeing him after him. brandishing their
clubs in the air and two sending at the
Georges the boat threw
in capture pulled off minded not the
which from the bank. That same night his wife
better, for had eaten of the flesh of the
birds, for without the of making fire, Georges
unable cook Them And three days later the
broadened and they they in the Yenesei
Next day they saw the right bank the clustering
golden cupolas betosening city
Yeniseisk they passed it by and went into
the open country again. From this time forth until
they arrived the polar regions Georges and his wife
lived as Georges fashioned himself rude
club and would go woods and kill hares with
all a fifteen days they lived
the flesh. roots and red berries;
but one day they came to block ice, and coming
down the river a big steamer crashing thru the foes
her way to the
crew were English, the steamer English and that
steamer going thru the Kara to England. In
two time the ice Of the Kara would be
and speed ahead the steamer would cut thru the
narrow channel free of the ice. The of the
steamer little boat embedded in the ice and sent
help, so that a and woman, starved nearly to
death looking like were brought on board
Every kindness was shown them None questioned
they had until
were passed and northern shores of Finland
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