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Updated: May 5, 2025
It was full of vodkhi, an ardent spirit beloved by the Russian peasant, half-a-dozen drops of which McKay managed to gulp down, but they nearly burned his throat. "Water! water!" he asked again. And the Cossack, evidently surprised at his want of taste, substituted the simpler fluid; but the charitable act drew down upon him the displeasure of his chief.
He was a prisoner, but an honoured guest, and they freely pressed their flasks of vodkhi upon him when with great difficulty he had swallowed a few spoonfulls of the black porridge. They talked, too, incessantly, notwithstanding their fatigue, always on the same subject, this interminable siege. "It's weary work," said one. "I long for home."
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