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SIBERIA

THE GREAT SIBERIAN ROAD IN WINTER 385 on page 396. It is not an exaggeration, I think, to say that there were thousands of them, and throughout the whole day they were the most prominent features of every land- scape. Before daylight, Saturday morning, January 23d, we reached our proximate destination, the town of Minusinsk, and found shelter in a two-story log house that for many years was the home of the distinguished political exile, Prince Alexander Kropotkin. II 25