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THE DOC MENTARY FILM IN SEARCH OF THE METEORITE IN THE TAIGA
(From the Russian)
Telegram : Send immediately operator Taichete (i) Koulik.
Summoned to the director's office, I was informed that I had been appointed cinema-operator to the L. K. Koulik expedition, organised by the Academy of Sciences, to the Ta'iga, in search of the meteorite. On the following day, the train carried me in the direction of Taichete, where I hoped to join the expedition.
When I reached Taichete, the expedition had left. Taking advantage of the winter road, the travellers had started 5 days earlier, bound for the farm of Vanavare.
Every minute was precious to me, I travelled day and night by post-chaise, changing sledge at each relay. The winter road had disappeared ; to cross the chain of mountains, I was obliged to go by the summer road. The horses sank up to their necks in the snow. I had to give up one of the sledges, and riding the horse thus left free, I traced the path for those who came after me. Crossing a river in the mountains, I was dragged in by my sinking horse. The water rose up to my waist. The horse broke the ice and thus made a track to the other shore.
The twilight... The postillion far back in the rear, ... The snow... The Taiga dumb and solitary.
At last, after waiting an hour and a half, the postillion overtook me, and I was able to change my clothes, there where I was, in the midst of the snow.
After enduring many similar hardships, I reached the river Angara. The ice was thawing within some yards from the shores and its breaking up was emminent.
(1) Taichet The last station of the railway on the road of the expedition, 5.000 kilometres from Moscow.
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