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SIBERIA

The country lying along the Shílka, in the vicinity of Kará, is inhabited, away from the river, only by a tribe of

RETURNING FROM KARÁ ON THE ICE OF THE SHÍLKA RIVER.

half-wild nomads, known to the Russians as "Orozhánni," They acknowledge allegiance to the Russian Grovernment, pay taxes, and are nominally Christians; but they rarely come into the Russian settlements, unless brought there by