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Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar

CHAPTER III
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Make the doors very low and the entries narrow.

Put a picture of a saint in the principal room of every house, and adorn the walls with a few engravings.

Make a garden near each house, and let a few miscellaneous gardens cling to the hillside and strive to climb it.

Don't forget to build a church, or you will fail to represent a Russian town.
Petropavlovsk has no vehicle of any kind except a single hand cart.
Consequently the street is not gashed with wheel ruts.
We were invited to 'assist' at a wedding that happened in the evening after our arrival.

The ceremony was to begin at five o'clock, and was a double affair, two sisters being the brides.


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