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OUR LAST DAYS IN SIBERIA
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KÍRGHIS CAMEL PLEDGES.

cottage gable-roof with a little trough-shaped box perched on the summit for the driver, the merchant, and his clerk. The great annual fair at Irbít in Western Siberia is second in importance only to the world-renowned fair of Nízhni Nóvgorod, and is visited by merchants and traders from