This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
210
IN THE LENA DELTA.

Tomat put in a vigorous protest ; but as Starry Nico- lai had meanwhile arrived in evident preparation for the journey, though, it is true, strongly inclined to belie his looks and take sides with old Tomat, I felt, reinforced by Paddy, considerably in the majority, and so gave the peremptory order to "Skaree, pi dome" (make haste, go on).