John Ledyard's Journey Through Russia and Siberia, 1787-1788, Volume 2University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1964 - 698 pages |
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Page 210
... Russian for the Iakut language . The mod- ern Russian would be something like : Nu ? ekhat ' so mnoiu i zhit ' v Kamchatke . This clearly indicates that Ledyard's knowledge of Russian was rather poor . 92 The Russian equivalent of this ...
... Russian for the Iakut language . The mod- ern Russian would be something like : Nu ? ekhat ' so mnoiu i zhit ' v Kamchatke . This clearly indicates that Ledyard's knowledge of Russian was rather poor . 92 The Russian equivalent of this ...
Page 251
... Russian Lieutenant who instantly set about seeking for it . to It was found in the Boots of the Russian Postillion , & as the Rus- sian Soldier was guard over me & my Property & was drunk , at the moment ( tho ' not before ) I suspected ...
... Russian Lieutenant who instantly set about seeking for it . to It was found in the Boots of the Russian Postillion , & as the Rus- sian Soldier was guard over me & my Property & was drunk , at the moment ( tho ' not before ) I suspected ...
Page 252
... Russian Bar- rier Village , in my own Empire , as I called it , visibly mortified him , the vain Russian , for his ( I will not say his ungenteel but ) beastly haughtiness , distain & impertinence to me the Evening be- fore : but mark ...
... Russian Bar- rier Village , in my own Empire , as I called it , visibly mortified him , the vain Russian , for his ( I will not say his ungenteel but ) beastly haughtiness , distain & impertinence to me the Evening be- fore : but mark ...
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