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Updated: June 22, 2025
Foreigners were not often seen there if I may judge of the curiosity with which I was regarded. Kansk is a town of about three thousand inhabitants, and stands on the Kan, a tributary of the Yenesei. We were told there was little snow to the first station, and were advised to take five horses to each sleigh. We found the road a combination of thin snow and bare ground, the latter predominating.
From Kirensk it would be but little more than a hundred miles to the nearest point on the Angara, which is one of the principal branches of the Yenesei. To gain this river would be a great point.
Just before the frost begins you can shoot as many as you like." "That will be something to look forward to. When does the weather begin to get cold and dry?" "Where I lived the nights began to get cold at the end of September, but we shall be far down the Yenesei by that time, and it will begin early in the month." "We shall be a long way down," Godfrey said, "if we keep on at this pace.
"No good for man always to work," he said. "Good to lie quiet sometimes." "I don't know that I care about lying quiet generally, Luka, but it is pleasant to do so in a boat. I am keeping a look-out for wild-fowl, it would make a pleasant change to fish diet." "Not so far south as this. The Yenesei swarms with them in winter, but in summer they go north.
Rapids and shoals below Krasnoyarsk prevent their ascending to the latter town. The tributaries of the Yenesei are quite rich in gold deposits, and support a mining business of considerable extent. Krasnoyarsk derives its name from the red hills in its vicinity, and the color of the soil where it stands. It is on the left bank of the Yenesei, and has about ten thousand inhabitants.
Two days' journey took them into a hilly country. They established themselves in a sheltered valley, and made that the centre from which they hunted. They were now twelve days' journey from the Yenesei and well beyond the range of ordinary hunting parties.
The Samoyeds, in number 70,000, live in the territory extending from the White Sea to the Yenesei; to these belong the Samoyeds properly so called, the Narîmski and the Yenesei Ostiaks, the Olennie Choukchi, etc. The Mongolo-Manzhourian race amounting to 400,000.
When the year's operations are ended the most of the men find their way to the larger towns, where they generally waste their substance in riotous living till the return of spring. As in mining communities everywhere, the prudent and economical are a minority. The mines in the government of Yeneseisk are generally on the tributaries of the Yenesei river.
All in the market were frozen solid, and the larger ones were piled up like cord-wood. From the bank overlooking the river there is a fine view of the valley of the Yenesei. There are several islands in the vicinity, and I was told that in the season of floods the stream has a very swift current.
Still, if the canoes go from Archangel to Petchora and back, we ought to be able to do it from Petchora, for the distance from there to Archangel is a good deal less than from the mouth of the Yenesei to the Petchora.
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