This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...evening it snowed hard, and the next morning the mountains were covered with a thin sheet of snow. The Kirghiz said, that winter was already coming in the mountains, and that it would get colder and colder every day. On July 30th winter was upon us in full severity. It snowed the whole day, heavily and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...evening it snowed hard, and the next morning the mountains were covered with a thin sheet of snow. The Kirghiz said, that winter was already coming in the mountains, and that it would get colder and colder every day. On July 30th winter was upon us in full severity. It snowed the whole day, heavily and ceaselessly; sometimes the entire landscape was enveloped in dense clouds of driving snow, so that not a trace of the mountains, or of the valley lying deep down below them, was to be seen. It was dark, cold, and gusty, and the inhospitable mountain received us at Yam-bulak-bashi much as it had done the April previously. There was no prospect of any excursion that day, for we could not see many steps in front of us for the snowstorm, and my winter wardrobe, consisting of a sheepskin coat, fur cap and waistcoat, and valenkis (Russian felt boots), was not yet unpacked. In order not to be hampered with too much paraphernalia, I had this time only brought a small yurt with me; and in this I sat the whole day, writing and drawing, with a cup of hot tea every now and then to keep me warm. The men crowded together in their great sheepskin coats, and sat crouched under the shelter of a block of gneiss, listening to Mollah Islam, who vas reading aloud out of an old book of tales. As the snowstorm increased in violence, I made them come into the tent, and let them continue their reading. Towards evening it ceased to snow; but heavy grey clouds swept through the deep valleys, trailing their long fringes and draperies behind them. Every now and again flying fragments became detached from them, and sprinkled the rocks with their white powder. In the evening we had a visit from the aksakal of the aul of Yam-bulak, and half-a-dozen other Kirghiz, who came...
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