The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-11
xxvI.-Continued.

The hills were very high and very
steep, the roads but name i'm sum
mer. Had not the snow been soft
and thin athe horses could not have
made the ascent at all; and as it was,
the riders were forced to walk the
greater part of the way and drag their
unwilling steeds behind them. They
versts, and at Katschuk Rezanov sue
cumbed for two days, while Jon
secured the country in search of te-
lega; as sometimes happened there was
long stretch Of country without
snow, and sledges, by far the most
comfortable method Of travel in ST.
IBERIA, could not be used. The rest of
the. journey, but 1876 versts, must be
made by land. Rezanov admitted that
he was too weary to ride, and refused
to travel in the post carriage. On
the third day the servant managed to
hire telega from superior farmer
and they started immediately, the
heavy luggage having been consigned
to merchant vessel at Yakutsk. IL
Rezanov stood the telega exactly
half day. Little larger than an arm
chair and far lighter, it was drawn by
horses that galloped up and down hill
and across the intervening valleys with
no change of gait, and over road so
be propelled by a succession of earth
quakes. Rezanov, in a fever which
he attributed to rage, dismissed the
telega at village and awaited the COM
Ing of Jon, who followed on horseback
with the personal luggage.
It was village Of wooden houses
built in the Russian fashion, and in.
habited by a dignified tribe wearing
long white garments bordered with fur.
They spoke Russian, language little
heard farther north and east in Sibe-
hospitality they dispatched a courier
at once to the governor general of Irk.
utsk, acquainting him with the condi-
tion Of the chamberlain and of his i'm
minent arrival. In consequence, when
Rezanov drew rein two days later and
looked down upon the city Of Irkutsk
with its pleasant squares and great stone
buildings beside the shining river, the
guided domes and crosses Of it's thirty
churches and converts glittering in the
sun, the whole picture reckoning to
some mirage Of the desert, his appear
ance was the signal for salute from
the fort; and the governor general,
prlvy counsellor and senator de Pestel,
accompanied by the civil governor, the
commandment, and the archbishop, and
with military escort, sailed forth and
led the guest, with the formality Of
officials and the compassionate tender
ness Of men, into the capital.
For three weeks longer Rezanov Law
in the palace of the governor. Between
fever and lassitude his iron will seemed
alternately to melt in the fiery furnace
of his body, then, cooling but still
viscous and formless mass, sink to the
utmost depths of his being. But here
he had the best Of nursing and attend
ancs: rallied finally and insisted upon
continuing his journey. His doctor made
the less demur as the travelling was far
smoother. now, in the early days Of
March, than it would be month hence,
when the snow was thinner and the
sledges were no longer possible. Never
theless, he announced his intention to
] accompany him as far as Krasnoiarsk,
! where the chamberlain could lodge in
/ the house of the principal magistrate of
! The place, Counsellor Keller, and be able
to command fair nursing and medical