item: #1 of 6 id: 13806 author: Knox, Thomas Wallace title: Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life date: None words: 191002 flesch: 74 summary: There are many good men among the priests of the Eastern church in Siberia, but it must also be admitted there are many bad ones. In the government of Yakutsk there are many horses that find their own living in winter as in summer. keywords: air; american; amoor; baggage; bank; boat; captain; chapter; character; chief; china; chinese; church; city; cold; company; country; course; custom; day; days; dinner; distance; dogs; dozen; emperor; end; english; exiles; feet; find; fire; fish; french; general; gentleman; gold; good; government; governor; ground; half; hand; head; hills; horses; hour; house; ice; illustration; irkutsk; journey; kiachta; kind; lake; land; left; life; line; making; man; men; merchants; miles; money; morning; mountains; natives; near; new; nicolayevsk; night; north; number; officers; party; people; petersburg; piece; place; point; population; post; present; ready; region; river; road; room; russian; saw; sea; second; service; ship; shore; siberia; sleigh; snow; station; steamer; summer; table; tea; telegraph; thought; time; town; trade; travel; traveler; trees; valley; versts; village; visit; water; way; winter; women; wood; work; years cache: 13806.txt plain text: 13806.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 26090 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape from Siberia date: None words: 130889 flesch: 86 summary: At last Godfrey felt it was time to fire again, and waiting till the canoes were within about seventy yards' distance he fired both barrels, slightly shifting his aim between each shot. Your name is Godfrey Bullen? Yes, sir. Born in St. Petersburg, but of English parentage? Godfrey bowed his head. keywords: alexis; boat; buriat; canoe; country; course; cut; day; days; distance; end; escape; feet; fire; fish; godfrey; good; gun; half; hand; head; home; hours; illustrations; journey; land; lay; left; life; little; look; luka; man; men; mikail; miles; morning; night; north; ostjaks; page; people; place; prison; prisoners; river; room; round; russian; saw; sea; set; shore; shot; skins; snow; story; tent; thing; thought; time; want; water; way; wind; winter; work; years cache: 26090.txt plain text: 26090.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 37536 author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor title: The House of the Dead; or, Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont date: None words: 125000 flesch: 79 summary: My chain was not of the regulation pattern; it was composed of rings, which gave forth a clear sound, so I heard other convicts say. On the upper bench, and the steps which led to it, were heaped together other convicts who washed themselves more thoroughly, but these were in small number. keywords: air; barracks; case; convict prison; convicts; day; days; drink; end; evening; eyes; face; fellow; general; good; guard; half; hand; head; hospital; house; kind; kopecks; labour; left; life; look; looking; major; man; manner; matter; men; mind; moment; money; new; night; officer; order; people; place; prison; prisoners; punishment; room; round; saw; soldier; sort; things; thought; time; town; water; way; word; work; years; young cache: 37536.txt plain text: 37536.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 41237 author: Vanderlip, Washington Baker title: In Search of a Siberian Klondike date: None words: 53484 flesch: 79 summary: I found it very difficult to get good dogs there, but after four days of patient search I secured two strong young natives, each with a team of twelve dogs. Of course I was always on the lookout for good dogs, and while I was in this village I came upon the finest specimen of a Siberian sledge-dog that it was ever my fortune to see. keywords: american; chrisoffsky; day; days; deer; dogs; feet; fish; food; ghijiga; gold; good; half; head; house; ice; illustration; left; man; men; miles; morning; natives; night; north; people; place; point; reindeer; river; russian; sea; skin; sledge; snow; stream; summer; tea; time; tundra; use; village; water; way; women; work cache: 41237.txt plain text: 41237.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 45167 author: Michie, Alexander title: The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. date: None words: 134917 flesch: 68 summary: The dogs of Siberia are of the ubiquitous breed which is common all over China, Japan, and many other countries, and is nearly akin to our own collie dog. Chapter XIV. Having therefore satisfied ourselves that we should be in good time to catch the steamer on the Baikal, which makes two trips a week, we resigned ourselves with a good conscience to the kind solicitations of our host. keywords: camels; carts; chapter; china; chinese; city; cold; condition; country; course; day; days; desert; distance; doubt; emperor; end; feet; foreign; general; good; got; government; great; ground; half; head; horses; hour; house; ice; irkutsk; journey; kiachta; kind; lama; land; left; life; like; little; man; means; miles; money; mongolia; mongols; morning; night; north; number; order; pass; peking; people; place; point; population; post; present; rest; river; road; room; russian; sheep; short; siberia; snow; state; station; tea; tent; tientsin; time; town; trade; travellers; travelling; tribes; use; valley; view; water; way; wind; winter; work; world; years cache: 45167.txt plain text: 45167.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 49637 author: Coxe, William title: Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China date: None words: 84880 flesch: 72 summary: Near the shore were several small islands, between which and the land the ice was immovably fixed. Account of the _Russian_ and _Chinese_ settlements upon the confines of _Siberia_--description of the _Russian_ frontier town _Kiachta_--of the _Chinese_ frontier town _Maitmatschin_--its buildings, pagodas, &c. p. 211. keywords: account; aleĆ¼tian; america; bay; beering; chart; chinese; coast; crew; discoveries; distance; east; expedition; following; footnote; fox; fox islands; furs; glottoff; iii; inhabitants; islanders; islands; isles; kamtchatka; kiachta; korovin; longitude; men; mouth; natives; new; north; number; order; otters; persons; petersburg; place; rhubarb; river; russians; sea; ship; shore; siberia; sidenote; skins; steered; time; umnak; unalashka; versts; vessel; voyage; wind; winter; year cache: 49637.txt plain text: 49637.txt