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There is a little group at the doorway, and among them stands the late prisoner. Oby holds a foaming tankard in one hand, and touches his battered hat, as the magistrates go by, with a gesture of sly humility. The waggon-track leading to the Upper Woods almost always presented something of interest, and often of beauty.
No, says he, shakin his head, I hope I have too much clear grit in me to take on so bad for that. What under the sun, is it, then? said I. Why, says he, I made a bet the fore part of summer with Leftenant Oby Knowles, that I could shoulder the best bower of the Constitution frigate. I won my bet, but the Anchor was so eternal heavy it broke my heart.
'I am dreadful sorry, says I, 'to see you, Banks, lookin' so peecked; why you look like a sick turkey hen, all legs; what on airth ails you? 'I'm dyin', says he, 'of a broken heart. 'What, says I, 'have the gals been jiltin' you? 'No, no, says he, 'I bean't such a fool as that neither. 'Well, says I, 'have you made a bad speculation? 'No, says he, shakin' his head, 'I hope I have too much clear grit in me to take on so bad for that. 'What under the sun, is it, then? said I. 'Why, says he, 'I made a bet the fore part of summer with Leftenant Oby Knowles, that I could shoulder the best bower of the Constitution frigate.
Mistress Fawcett hastily closes the window by which she is standing, swings to and bars its shutters. Immediately after may be heard the sound, gradually diminishing in the distance, of a long line of windows slammed and barred. Come here. Close this window. Did you not hear the guns? A hurricane is upon us. Oh, mistress, save us! Send for oby doctor!
And yet here I observed ignorance and paganism, still prevailed, except in the Muscovite garrisons. All the country between the river Oby and the river Janezay is as entirely pagan, and the people as barbarous, as the remotest of the Tartars; nay, as any nation, for aught I know, in Asia or America.
The inhabitants scarcely dare admit the light, for fear of increasing the cold; and they make only one or two very small windows in their houses. Yet in summer vegetables grow freely in the gardens. The Ostyaks live near the Oby. The Buraets live near lake Baikal. The Yakuts live near the Lena. They are full of treasures; gold, silver, iron, copper, and precious stones.
From the Gulf of Finland to the Eastern Ocean, Russia now assumes the form of a powerful and civilized empire. The plough, the loom, and the forge, are introduced on the banks of the Volga, the Oby, and the Lena; and the fiercest of the Tartar hordes have been taught to tremble and obey.
Some of them have not deserved to be banished; but some have been guilty of crimes. There are a few cities in Siberia, but only a few, and they have been built by the Russians. The three chief cities are, Tobolsk, on the west, on the river Oby. Irkutsk, in the midst, on the lake Baikal. Yarkutsk, on the east, on the river Lena. Tobolsk is the handsomest. Irkutsk is the pleasantest.
The people also that dwell about the riuer, are called Vuogolici and Vgritzschi. From the Castle of Obea, ascending by the riuer of Oby, vnto the riuer Irtische, into the which Sossa entereth, is three moneths iourney. In these places are two Castles named Ierom and Tumen, kept by certaine Lords called Knesi Iuhorski, being tributaries to the great Duke of Moscouia, as they say.
From one to the other extremity of America; from Kamtschatka westward to the river Oby; and from the Northern Sea, over that length of country, to the confines of China, of India, and Persia; from the Caspian to the Red Sea, with little exception, and from thence over the inland continent and the western shores of Africa; we every where meet with nations on whom we bestow the appellations of barbarous or savage.
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