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But with this exception, and that of the time spent by Luka in cooking, they continued to paddle until, forty hours after starting, they reached Cape Golovina, passing between it and Beloc Island. They did not make the halt they had intended under shelter of the cape, for the weather was fine, and Godfrey wanted to take advantage of the north wind as long as it lasted.
The whole of the Ostjaks at once set to work. Godfrey chose a piece of level ground twenty or thirty yards lower down than the huts. He and Luka, aided by some of the men, carried the various articles out of the boat. While they were doing this, the women stuck some poles in the ground round the circle Godfrey had traced, and lashed them together in the middle with some strips of hide.
I do not know how to feel thankful enough that we hid the canoe away." "We could not have gone without our things," Luka said. "We would have fought them all and killed them rather than lose our tea and tobacco." Godfrey laughed at his companion's earnestness. "I think that would have been paying too dearly for them, Luka. Still we should have missed them badly."
Luka sat on the floorboards at the bottom of the boat, and set himself to work to manufacture from the squirrels' skins two fur caps of the same pattern as those worn by the Ostjaks. Godfrey had asked him to do so in order that they might be taken for members of that tribe by anyone looking at them from the villages on the banks.
Usually, on such occasions, Baush asked for some vodka, drank it up, got on his horse, and began to halloo as lustily as ever again. 'You seem to be fond of hunting too, Luka Petrovitch? 'I should have been certainly, not now; now my time is over but in my young days.... But you know it was not an easy matter in my position. It's not suitable for people like us to go trailing after noblemen.
There are Laplanders, who are people just like the Samoyedes, and who have got reindeer; if we find any of them, as I hope we shall, we ought to be all right. We have got a hundred silver roubles, and if you show a man money and make signs you want to go somewhere, and don't much care where, he is pretty safe to take you. Now you take a sleep, Luka. I will steer.
So sheltered were they, indeed, that they scarce felt the wind that was howling above them, and were as comfortable beneath their boat as they had been in their hut by the river side. "When it is as rough as this in the gulf, Luka, it will be tremendous out at sea."
We are safe now, in ten minutes we shall be clear of the river, and have only got to paddle back and fetch our canoe." "We may have to fight yet," Luka said. "Sure to follow us. The meat and flour is all gone. I expect they gave it to their dogs. That is what made them sleep so sound. They will know that we shall have to land somewhere to get food, and think they will have us then.
Of course we shall be just as liable to be seized and shut up as vagabonds when we cannot produce papers as if we were in our convict suits, but there is something disgusting in being dressed up in clothing that tells every one you are a murderer or a robber, and to know there is that patch between one's shoulders." Luka was quite indifferent to any sentimental considerations.
This Godfrey, who had got the geography of the river by heart, judged to be Peslovska, because it was one of the few trading stations which was not situated at a point where a tributary stream ran into the Yenesei. "We are far enough down now, Luka," he said. "We are not more than two hundred miles from Turukhansk.
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