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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: rest of the journey, but one hundred and ninety-
six versts, must be made by land. Rezanov admit-
ted that he was too weary to ride, and refused to
travel in the post carriage. On the third day the
servant managed to hire a telega from a superior
farmer and they started immediately, the heavy lug-
gage having been consigned to a merchant vessel at
Yakutsk.
Rezanov stood the telega exactly half a day.
Little larger than an armchair and far lighter, it
was drawn by horses that galloped up and down
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