Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia |
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112 페이지 - ... by a process tending to perfect the quality of the steel, and to impress upon cast steel the elastic properties of a softer material. The general fault of European blades is, that being forged of shear steel, for the sake of elasticity, they are scarcely susceptible of the keen edge which cast steel will assume. The genius of Anossoff has triumphed over this objection, not in hardening the soft steel, but in giving elasticity to the hard ; and it may be doubted whether any fabric in the world...
417 페이지 - The kirghis sprung from his horse, slipped the hood over the eagle's head, and the shackles upon his legs, and removed him from his prey without difficulty. The keeper mounted his horse, his assistant placed the bearcoote on his perch, and he was ready for another flight. No dogs are taken out when hunting with the eagle : they would be destroyed to a certainty ; indeed the kirghis assert that he will attack and kill the wolf.
242 페이지 - The lower ends of the willow rods are tied with leathern thongs to the top of the trellis-work at the sides, which renders it quite strong and secure. The whole is then covered with large sheets of voilock, made of wool and camel's hair, fitting close, making it water-tight and warm.
100 페이지 - Siberia, and some of them may vie with the best in Europe. About twenty-five or thirty years ago, several fine crystals of emerald were discovered by some children while playing near the village of Takovaya, and were tossed about in the cottage for a considerable time before their character was recognized. At length they were sent to Ekaterineburg, and were most splendidly cut in the Granilno'i Fabric.
10 페이지 - I have several times looked upon what appeared inevitable death9 and have had a fair allowance of hair-breadth escapes when riding and sketching on the brinks of precipices with a perpendicular depth of 1500 feet below me. With these accompaniments, I traversed much of the hitherto unexplored regions of Central Asia, and produced 560 sketches of the scenery, executed with the moist colors made by Winsor and Newton, invaluable to an artist employed under such circumstances. I have used them on the...