I had bought a considerable quantity of sables, black foxskins,fine ermines, and such other furs as are very rich in that city, inexchange for some of the goods I had brought from China inparticular for the cloves and nutmegs, of which I sold the greatestpart here, and the rest afterwards at Archangel, for a much betterprice than I could have got at London and my partner, who wassensible of the profit, and whose business, more particularly thanmine, was merchandise, was mightily pleased with our stay, onaccount of the traffic we made here.Ībout an hour after they again made a motion to attack us, and roderound our little wood to see where they might break in but findingus always ready to face them, they went off again and we resolvednot to stir for that night. It was the beginning of June when I left this remote place.Wewere now reduced to a very small caravan, having only thirtytwohorses and camels in all, which passed for mine, though my newguest was proprietor of eleven of them.It was natural also that Ishould take more servants with me than I had before and the younglord passed for my steward what great man I passed for myself Iknow not, neither did it concern me to inquire.We had here theworst and the largest desert to pass over that we met with in ourwhole journey I call it the worst, because the way was very deepin some places, and very uneven in others the best we had to sayfor it was, that we thought we had no troops of Tartars or robbersto fear, as they never came on this side of the river Oby, or atleast very seldom but we found it otherwise.
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