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0073 The heart of a continent : vol.1
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We only stayed one day in Novo-kievsk, and then returned
to our friend Colonel Sokolowski's post, dining with him there
again, and meeting there the commissaire. The talk turned
on the subject of English encroachments. These two Russian
officials said people were always talking of English designs
against Russian territory, and it was curious to find here the
same kind of alarmist rumours and suspicions of hyper-crafty
designs and deep-laid schemes of aggression that we are so
accustomed to in India. The British fleet had only a few
weeks before visited Possiet Bay, and immediately all the cacklers
had set to work to find a hidden object for this. The English
intended, they supposed, to bombard Possiet and seize a port
here in Eastern Siberia as they had just done at Port Hamilton.
Fortunately for Mr. James and myself, both the military and
civil officials in charge on this frontier were more wide-minded,
even-tempered men, and, as I have shown, treated us with
marked civility and without any sign of suspicion, so that we
were enabled to carry out a most interesting little visit.