Id   below four thousand; I fatter - if
erbsays, "a watched pot never boils.o ' Icair*
F.ee distance figures aiminished very  wlya an       '".
ieyy seemed to remain nearly thei same fro  day to ia. j  'The snow storm that began when we left Tomsk, CEint  :. ifued through the night and the following day. The airm-is . ,A' iWVarm, and there was little wind, sothat our principal inJe: Hrenience was from the snow flakes in our faces; and the griad  I i  filling of the road. Toward sunset a wind arose. 'Every ''?i: S iour it increased, and before midnight there was good plfea aect of our losing our way or being compelled to halt un6tif l
air, and utterly blinded us when- we attempted to -look out. The road filled with drifts, and we had much difficulty- in dragging through them. Thegreatest personal inconvenience was the sifting of snow through the crevices of our sleigh . 'cver. At every halt we underwent a vigorous shakingo-to   ': "remove the superfluous snow from our furs.               - . a:
A storm with high winds in this region takes the namedo txran. It is analogous to the poorga of Northeastern .-Sibe ria and Kamchatka, and may occur at any season.s of-E l ea.                               -         - : ;       ,
:Bourans are oftentimes very violent, especially-in the .lot'; eppe. Any one who has experienced the norther-of Tea, : B ithe bora of Southern Austria, can form an idea:ofAtw:e ^ieran storms. The worst are When tfihermbee    it otwenty-five degrees or more below zero, anl'~it;'
^tshed about with terrific ftiy.t- i'ild -vAt  P *    ..up. · por ,ble,  id the t.a.4erl *:
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