From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin

CHAPTER VIII.

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A PERILOUS NIGHT ADVENTURE ON THE STEPPE OF OMSK.

An ostentatious Siberian custom--The steppe--The cemeteries --Omsk--Its situation--Its society--The emancipation of the serfs related by a citizen--M. Kroupinikof--Visit to an encampment of Kirghiz--Masquerade at Omsk 128