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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
5o AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. II.
If we had been allowed to keep at one liquor
we might possibly have survived ; but the
mixture of port and beer, and sherry and claret,
and Guinness's stout and vodka, backwards
and forwards, first one and then the other, was
fatal !
After we had eaten and drunk and talked for
some hours, the other officers went off, and the
colonel said to us, " I don't know quite where
you will sleep. There is a sofa for one of you ;
the other two had better sleep on the floor."
This we proceeded to do, and so passed our
first night in Russian territory. The colonel
had spoken of his Cossack hospitality being
rough but cordial. It was both.
On the following day we started for the
larger station of Novo-kievsk, fifteen miles
distant, and situated on the coast. It turned
out to be but a small place with a garrison of a
battalion of infantry, a battery of artillery, and
about a hundred mounted Cossacks. There
were very few buildings besides the barracks.
The roadways were unmetalled, and the whole
place had a dreary, uncared-for appearance.
We could discover no Russian hotel or inn of
ally description, and had to put up at a
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