[86] The reader will recollect that upon leaving Bolcheretsk, we had a troop consisting nearly of three hundred.
[87] It was really a labour, and a most fatiguing one, if we consider that in these yourts it was not possible to write, without lying upon the ground; we were also suffocated with smoke, and the ink froze by our side.
Transcriber's Notes
Obvious errors of punctuation and diacritics repaired.
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The following archaic spellings have not been changed: alledge, but-end, carabine, centinel, chace, compleated, extasy, seise, smoak.
Hyphen removed: oat[-]meal (p. 151), Rein[-]deer (p. 113), stair[-]case (pp. 26, 27).
P. viii: with sorrow and affecton -> with sorrow and affection.
P. xiv: Klatchefskaïa inhabited by Siberian peasants -> Klutchefskaïa inhabited by Siberian peasants.