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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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uncared-for appearance. We could discover no Russian hotel
or inn of any description, and had to put up at a Chinese inn.
There were two Russian and four Chinese shops. The latter
were the best, and were about equal to a second-rate Parsee
shop in an Indian cantonment. The barracks and cottages
of the married officers and men were very small, and white-
washed, and extremely cold and dreary in appearance. The
whole place, barracks, shops, church, and everything, was not
so large, and certainly not so well built, as the barracks of
my regiment in India. The absence of life, too, was particularly
striking. In the afternoon, at any rate, we expected to see
the officers and their wives coming out for some sort of amuse-
ment and exercise. But nobody appeared. The officers seem
to spend their spare time in smoking, drinking, and playing
cards; and the wives, I conclude, in looking on, for there did
not appear to be much else for them to do.
There was a hill just by the town, and of course we climbed
it. We afterwards met the commissaire again, and he told
us that he had often heard that it was characteristic of English-
men that whenever they saw a hill they immediately craved
to go up it, and he was immensely tickled at hearing we
actually had climbed this hill. He said he had scarcely known
a single Russian in the place ascend it; but here, directly an
Englishman arrives, he immediately proceeds to do so. From
the top we obtained a view over Possiet Bay, on which this
little station of Novo-kievsk is situated, and on the opposite
side of the water, about two miles distant, we could make out
the small settlement of Possiet, consisting of thirty or forty
houses.
On descending the hill, we found a squad of recruits hard
at work drilling. They carried a knapsack and the great-coat
in a roll round it and over the body. They were being taught
to march with the leg kept very stiff and straight, and a smart
little adjutant was dancing about up and down the line, every
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