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Excerpt from Through Russia, Vol. 2 of 2: From St. Petersburg to Astrakhan and the Crimea
Were not likely to be omitted on board. We had a Virgin and Child in one corner, and a large saint with a brilliant glory in another. Having taken stock of these things, we mount ed to an upper deck provided with an awning and benches. The steersman was at one end, and the other was occupied by rows of leathern buckets, full of water, the sparks from the wood being apt to set the awning on fire, as many a hole testified. The river rolled on swift, broad, and troubled. The low banks, fringed with scrubby brushwood, had no beauty to te commend them. The scene was fine but deso late, there were so few signs of human occupa tion. The morning ?ed rapidly away in tranquillity, which was delightful, after the fatigues of the previous day. Those who could afford to dine from the restaurant, did so be tween four and five o'clock. The Armenians, along with their Russian bonne, who spoke a few words of French, took their meals in the deck cabin, and some half-dozen men had their little tables spread under the awning. We pre ferred the large ladies' cabin, of which we had sole possession, the Armenians having stowed.
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