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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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languages besides his own (and, as being especially useful
on the Chinese frontier, he spoke French and German). Yet,
on comparing notes, we found that I, as a subaltern in a
British cavalry regiment in India, was drawing more pay than
he was. And as for Mr. James, he could with his pay have
bought up a dozen—literally a dozen—of these frontier com-
mandants. Where, however, the Russian had the advantage
over us was in the matter of climate. It takes a great deal
of money indeed to make up for the sickening weariness of
hot weather in the plains of India. All these Russian officers
about us were strong, robust men, bursting with health.
Between them and a set of Englishmen in the plains of India
in the months of July and August there was a difference which
is but poorly compensated for by a few additional rupees.
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 of for the larger station of
Novo-kievsk, fifteen miles distant, and situated on the coast.
On the way we met the commissaire, or chief civil official.
He spoke English, and was very polite to us, and volunteered
to allow us to go to Vladivostok—a trip which we should
very much like to have made, but we could not spare the
time for it. The fact of this Russian official being so civil to
us, though we had no passports, was another proof of the
friendly disposition of the Russians towards us. Novo-kievsk
was 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,
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