CHAPTER XIX.

OMSK TO OCHANSK.

Leave Omsk--Recruiting--Cross the Irtish--Tukalinsk-- Yalootorofsk--Reach Tumen--Improved posting--Snowroads-- Ekaterineburg--Mint--Precious stones--Iron works-- Englishmen in Siberia--Iron mines--Fish trade--A recruiting scene--Temperature rising--Game--The Urals--Disappointing-- A new companion--The boundary between Europe and Asia-- Yermak the Cossack--Discovery and conquest of Siberia-- Reach Perm--Too late again--Progress of inland navigation-- Facilities for application of steam--Water routes of Siberia--Railways--Tatars--Cross the Kama to Ochansk-- Dissolving view of snow roads 305