Identifier: boytravellersinr00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across Siberia..
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia)
Publisher: New York : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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all-dress. Thesleeves were six inches longer than my arms, and very inconvenient when * The fire occurred on July 6th and 7th, 1879. About thirty-six hundred buildingswere destroyed, of wliich one Iiundred and more were of stone or brick, and the rest ofwood. Six Russian churches were burned, and also two synagogues, one Catholic andone Lutheran church; five bazaars, tlie meat-market, museum, club-house, custom-house,and other public edifices were consumed. The loss was about fifteen millions of dollars,and many persons formerly in good circumstances were rendered penniless. The wealthyinhabitants who escaped loss or ruin gave liberally to relieve the general distress, and theGovernment made substantial provision for the unemployed. 362 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. I wislied to pick up any small article; the collar was a foot wide, andwhen turned up and brought around in front completely concealed myhead. Then I had a fur cap, circular in shape and with lappets for cover-
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DRESSKD FOR THE ROAD. ing the ears. A lady made, from a piece of sable-skin, a mitten for my nose. For ray foot-gear I discarded my leather boots. Outside of my or-dinary socks I had a pair of squirrel-skin socks with the fur inside, sheep-skin stockings with the wool inside and reacliing to the knee, and outsideof these were deer-skin boots, with the hair outside, and reaching up near-ly to the junction of my lower limbs. Added to these garments for ex-cluding cold was a robe of sheeiDskins with the wool on, and backed with UPSET INTO THE SNOW. 363 heavy clotli. It was seven feet square, and something like a dozen skinswere required for making it. At one end it was shaped into a sort of bagfor receiving tlie feet. Fred suggested that such a costume must be very inconvenient forwalking, and it must be no easy matter to enter and leave a sleigh whenthus wrapped for a cold night. You are quite right, said Mr. liegeman ; it is the work of a minuteor more to turn over at night and change

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