Excerpt from Travels in Siberia, Vol. 2 of 2: Including Excursions Northwards, Down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and Southwards, to the Chinese Frontier
December 3. - The temperature of the air to-day, with a west wind and clear sky, was - 21° R. We prepared for our departure, and got some alterations, which were thought necessary, made in our vehicles. We left behind us, in Beresov, the larger of our two sledges, which was not fit for rein-deer, and, instead of it, we obtained through M. Bergunof a second covered nart, the body of which was lined with reindeer skin, together with another open sledge, of the same length, but narrower.
The first stage, fifty versts northwards from Beresov, we travelled with horses. We started on our journey about two P. M. (14 minutes before sunset), and stopped to rest about half-way at the yurts of Ustsosvinsk, which, as their name imports, are situate near the mouth (ustya) of the Sosva, where it joins the Obi. This place is surrounded by a thick and very tall wood, in which, as I was informed, the pinus cembra predominates.
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