For the ascent of the shallow river small boats had been built as I desired that the outfit and the most necessary part of the provisions should be transported to the upper Kamchatka post, a distance of 120 versts by water.
We sailed nearly 200 versts and saw not the slightest trace of land.
I verily believe that if the lumber-room had been a couple of versts away, and the frame twice as heavy as it was, I should have been the more pleased.
These ladies descended without accident twenty-one versts from Moscow.
He had many harrowing experiences, and at the end of seven hours descended three hundred and thirty versts [200 miles] from Moscow, in the neighborhood of the old frontiers of Russia.
Twelve loads of firewood were set alight, and the stove and the walls were made red-hot--impossible to come within five versts of it.
But when he came within a few versts of the sea-shore, his anger calmed down and he disappeared in the sea.
It was some fifty versts long, whereas if it had been made in a straight line it would not have been more than five.
And when the Prince came to the blue sea, he looked--there slept Norka on a stone in the middle of the sea; and when it snored, the water was agitated for seven versts around.
Well, they built a bridge five versts long, and this piece of work cleared out both the pots.
And a heavy shower of rain came on, too, and Dounia, insulted and put to shame, had to drive with a peasant in an open cart all the seventeen versts into town.
It is only ninety versts from us to the railway and we have come to an agreement with a driver we know, so as to be in readiness; and from there Dounia and I can travel quite comfortably third class.
It is only ninety versts and then they can 'travel very comfortably, third class,' for a thousand versts!
All the nobility, for fifty versts around, including Prince Paul and the chief families of Kostroma, were invited.
See to it that every man, woman, and child, for ten versts out on the Moskovskoi road, knows of their coming.
A hundred and twenty versts from Ufa he reached the flying Csika.
An electric telegraph, with a single wire more than eight thousand versts in length, alone affords communication between the western and eastern frontiers of Siberia.
The boat was in the middle of the current, at nearly equal distances from either shore, and being carried down at the rate of two versts an hour, when Michael, springing to his feet, bent his gaze up the river.
For a few versts more the raft continued to drift amongst the floating ice.
The passage of the Angara in front of Irkutsk having been regarded by Ogareff as impracticable, a strong body of troops crossed, several versts up the river, by means of bridges formed with boats.
That may be; but to do this it is necessary for the square of good infantry to reach the rebellious country, and the cannon to leave the arsenals of the Russian provinces, perhaps two or three thousand versts distant.
Michael rode on for two versts without meeting a human being.
The next morning, the 13th of September, twenty versts further, they made a short halt in the village of Joulounov-skoe.
This passage was much easier; no whirlpools broke the course of the river in this second bed; but the current was so rapid that the kibitka only reached the opposite side five versts below.
At Oubinsk he gave his horse a whole night's rest, for he wished on the next day to accomplish the hundred versts which lie between Oubinsk and Ikoulskoe without halting.
On the morrow, Michael Strogoff left Elamsk at the moment when the first Tartar scouts were signaled ten versts behind upon the road to the Baraba, and he plunged again into the swampy region.
A fight took place at the head of Bolchaia Street, two versts long, on the banks of the Angara.
To find a stream they must have diverged fifty versts eastward, to the very foot of the mountains.
By following the course of the Obi two versts further, he reached a picturesque little town lying on a small hill.
Twelve versts before arriving at Nijni-Novgorod, at a sharp curve of the iron way, the train experienced a very violent shock.
Well-fed horses in saddle-cloths fly through the frost at the rate of twenty versts an hour; in the carriages sit ladies muffled in round cloaks, and carefully tending their flowers and head-dresses.
I spent a half-day working in a hayfield with peasants from Konetsgory who were eight versts from home.
We evacuated Shagavari on the afternoon of the 27th and stood for our new front at Vistafka, sixteen versts north, with Kitsa seven versts to the rear as headquarters.
This was twenty-seven versts south of Shenkursk, and Shenkursk was one hundredversts south of Bereznik, and Bereznik was three hundred versts south of Archangel.
I have traveled nearly a thousand versts by sled over this northern country and stopped every six hours at a private house for a samovar and perhaps a bed.
He drove the Bolsheviki 427 versts south of Archangel before winter set in, and then took up winter quarters and prepared for defense.
I remember we used to come to Golovliovo, and when we were thirty versts away, we began to shiver in our boots.
He was dreadfully uncomfortable, because there were four people in the diligence and he had to sit with his legs bent, so that at the end of three or four versts he had an intolerable pain in his knee-joints.
Zaruchi, 72 versts (or about 48 miles) from Malo Vyschera, where we were not sorry to make a light breakfast of the inevitable tea.
At Alaghir, a village of the plains, some seventy-three versts from the summit of the Mamisson, there are good houses and orchards and many of the comforts of life.
With these gentlemen I arrived at Malo Vyschera, a station 152 versts down the direct line from St. Petersburg to Moscow, at 7.
I, for my part, have walked many a thousand versts from village to village, and have been glad to live the peasant-pilgrim's life.
Four thousand versts at least, and he hasn't come straight by a long way.
I caught sight of the capital of the Caucasus in the distance, as it lay some five versts farther on, nestling between two high hills.
When within some twenty versts of Aloushta we stopped, as usual, for our night's rest.
At five o'clock in the morning the train stops at the capital of the Khanate of Bokhara, eleven hundred and seven versts from Uzun Ada.
We are not more than twelve versts from the Amu-Daria, and beyond that river I shall enter on my adventure.
The train arrived at Kizil Arvat, two hundred and forty-two versts from the Caspian, at thirteen minutes past seven in the evening instead of seven o'clock.
I should have liked to visit the famous sanctuary of Atesh Gah; but it is twenty-two versts from the town, and time failed me.
He was so well satisfied with his post that he was then travelling to England to return with his family to Stretnoi, some 2000 versts beyond the Baikal lake.
The portion of ground ceded to him is seven versts (nearly five miles) in length, and one hundred fathoms in breadth.
When wearied out with rough travelling, the few versts to the next halt were painful enough, and on such occasions the 5000 odd were really appalling.
In the post regulations it is laid down that travellers can demand to be driven at the rate of ten versts per hour in summer, eight in autumn, and twelve in winter, from December to March.
It was seven versts from the station to the ferry.
They are marched at the rate of thirty versts a day, which was slow enough to make us feel grateful for the moderate progress we had ourselves been making.
Very late at night we reached Basailsk, a station tenversts short of the Yenisei.
In the morning, however, we got across with our sledges, and proceeded to Ochansk, a small town three versts from the right bank of the river, where we breakfasted.
At the end of the second stage, forty-four versts from Omsk, we came to the river Irtish.
Leaving our exasperated friends to digest the venom of their spleen, we rattled away over good roads along the left bank of the Selenga, till we arrived at dusk at the post station of Ilyensk, six versts short of the town of that name.
A few versts beyond the station we observed a great bonfire blazing on the road-side, and certain wild-looking figures gliding about between the fire and a small hut close by.
He appealed to the "regulations," which only authorise a speed of eight versts per hour.
The "shipping port" was nine versts further south, and thither we had to transport our carriage.
Four versts beyond Volshenitsa the column passed the scene of the battle between the Bolos and "B" Force.
Casualties held here for two or three days and evacuated by sled to Beresnik about fifty versts to the rear.
For several versts we have skirted the edge of the river and watched the spires and domes of the city come nearer to us.
He will haul a load of small articles unguarded for many versts and deliver every piece safely, in spite of his own great hunger, because he is in charge of the shipment.
Winter blizzards found the outfit broken into trusty detachments scattered all the way from Kholmogori, ninety versts north of Yemetskoe, to Morjegorskaya, fifty-five versts south of company headquarters in Yemetskoe.
Weeks, and Russian infantry, mounted Cossacks, and a pom pom detachment, set out for Kodima about fiftyversts north and east of Shenkursk toward the Dvina River.
Here is the billeting officer to tell us that the eight versts is a mistake--it is nineteen instead.
The Reds had sixty verststo haul their loads but they had the most horses, which they used without mercy.
Meeting with considerable opposition in the vicinity of Chamova, a village about fifty versts from Beresnik, a rush call was sent in for American reinforcements.
On February 12th Captain Ramsay hurried up with two platoons to reinforce Shred Mekhrenga, traveling a distance of forty versts in one day.
Stopped at Shushuga on return, eightversts from Toulgas.
The deep silence, the stillness which always reigns in these woods, the knowledge that no one but myself was to be found in that solitude for twenty versts round, filled me with a strange feeling of anxiety and longing.
My estate, a hundred versts or so from Moscow, confiscated to the sacred cause of the Revolution, my house in Petrograd is commandeered to the sacred service of the Soviet.
Following upon that, I returned here, covering 800 versts in six days, and feeling none the worse for it.
I did 1,300 versts on the Volga, landing at the most notable spots.
Eichwald altogether followed it up about 18 versts (12 miles) not venturing to proceed further.
In the valley of the Kizil river, about 15 versts north-west of Kazbek.
In the valley of the Assai river, near Wapila, about 35 versts north-east of Dariel.
It is not till you get 4 versts from Derbend, in traversing the mountains, that you come upon a continuous wall.
Behind it for many versts there is nothing of sufficient strategic importance the capture of which would justify the enemy in the expenditure which will be necessary to dislodge it.
For whole versts behind the line, I am told that the terrain was a hash of earth, mangled bodies, and fragments of exploded shell.
The German drive on Wyszkow took them within 4 versts of the town, while the Russian counter-attack threw them back fifteen, with heavy losses in casualties and prisoners.
The building itself is one of the greatest piles in Europe, and on its hill towers above the surrounding country so that it is visible for 20 versts with its golden dome shining in the summer sun.
As I have mentioned in an earlier chapter, this particular army had not fallen back on its fortified and prepared line, but was camping out about 25 to 30 versts in front of it in positions which were somewhat informal.
Though they were 6 versts from the Front, everyone in his head-quarters had been affected with nausea and headaches, so potent were the fumes of the chloral that for hours lay like a miasmic mist in the grounds and garden of the estate.
That the Russians have kept it in good condition, is apparent from the fact that we were able to make above 65 versts an hour on many stretches of the way.
Provided with carriages we left our hospitable Colonel for the front trenches 4 versts further on.
One sign of the times is the new departure of the Russian authorities, in building at intervals of about every 5 versts a boiled water station, which is distinguished by a special flag.
The Colonel of the Lancers I had known before in Lwow, and he joined me in my motor and rode with me the 20 versts to the position that his cavalry was going to relieve at that time.
In the first place it seems extremely probable that this gas flowing to the low places will almost invariably settle in the lakes, marshes and all bodies of still water within 20 to 30 versts of the line.
Although the district is some thousands of versts nearer the civilized world, it contains few colonies.
On Sundays he took his wife to church, a few versts off, and when it was fine he carried his little girl there too.
It's thirty-five versts To the mill; in an hour now 410 The sales will be finished.
He's known to the peasants For twenty versts round.
You have not really heard it; You will if you stay here Till sunrise to-morrow: Some three versts away 330 There is living a deacon, And he has a voice too.
We've wandered at least 100 Thirty versts from our homes.
The troops actually posted on the line were reserves; the fighting was taking place at the passages of the Vistula sixteen versts away.
According to Polchow the Russian centre was at Radnazovo, a town, or large village, eleven versts further east; and the whole front extended more than thirty versts, though the hottest fighting was near Biezum.
Their opinion was that we were going to Grodno, about 150 verstsfrom Ostrolenka.
Although this place is only eighty versts from Ostrolenka, it took the train a whole day to reach it.
The two places are about thirty versts distant from each other: so it was evident the foe had fallen back on a pretty wide front.
I was not taken back to my billet, eight versts from the spot where I was hurt, but was sent on at once to Warsaw in an ambulance.
We were often moved from one part of the trenches and back again, for no perceivable reason; and on one occasion we were marched forty versts in the direction of Plock, probably because a great battle was expected.
In the course of a ride of about twenty versts (say fifteen miles, English measurement) we passed through only three collections of cottages which could be called hamlets.
In spite of strenuous exertion we could not advance faster than two versts an hour (less than a mile and a half).
The latter place is a small Russian town actually on the frontier, and more than thirty versts from a railway-station.
Helmersen, one of the members of the Academy, to the following effect:--About 50 versts SE.
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