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, Voyages on the Amoor, Volga, and Other Rivers, a Visit to Central Asia, Travels among the Exiles, and a Historical Sketch of the Empire from Its Foundation to the Present Time

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POSITION AND CHARACTER OF KRASNOYARSK.--A LESSON IN RUSSIAN PRONUNCIATION.--MARKET SCENE.--SIBERIAN TREES.--THE "OUKHABA."--A NEW SENSATION.--ROAD-FEVER AND ITS CAUSE.--AN EXCITING ADVENTURE WITH WOLVES.--HOW WOLVES ARE HUNTED.--FROM KRASNOYARSK TO TOMSK.--STEAM NAVIGATION IN SIBERIA.--BARNAOOL.--MINES OF THE ALTAI.--TIGERS AND TIGER STORIES.--THE "BOURAN."--ACROSS THE BARABA STEPPE.--TUMEN AND EKATERINEBURG.--FROM EUROPE TO ASIA.--PERM, KAZAN, AND NIJNI NOVGOROD.--END OF THE SLEIGH-RIDE. 377