Word: yenisei
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Third Day. Ever eastward, she crossed the Obi River, the Yenisei, the Lena. For 300 miles passengers saw no towns, just forests, rivers and swamps flecked occasionally by a typee. For some hours the ship lost radio contact with civilization, then picked up a Japanese station, then the U. S. Naval station at Peiping (Peking). She was near the arctic circle. Weather was chilly, the moon ruddy...
Even larger must be the mass that struck the-Province of Yenisei, Siberia, in 1908. The place had been a forest. It is now a bare area churned up for several miles. Russian scientists, led by L.A. Kulik, tried vainly to dig up even fragments of the meteorite. They were buried too deeply. This year the Russians may explore again...
...volume, the Danube is the most important river in Europe, although it is 675 miles shorter than the Volga. It is the 23rd longest river in the world. Others before it: Amazon (4,000). Nile (3,600), Yangtse (3,400), Yenisei (3,300), Mississippi (3,160), Missouri (3,000), Lena (3,000), Congo (3,000), Niger (3,000), Obi (2,700), Hoangho (2,600), Amur (2,500), Parana (2,450), Volga (2,400), Mackenzie (2,300), La Plata (2,300), Yukon (2,000), Madeira (2,000), Arkansas (2,000), Rio del Norte (1,800), St. Lawrence (1,800), Sao Francisco...
...itself as we know it from the West there is very little which is a relief. The author loses no time in political theorizing or in speculating as to the future of Russia, but steps quickly into the boundless forests of the Yenisei. From there on, all that we hear of the war or the Revolution comes as an echo from the Northwest, or from the months of inn-keepers, shepherds, Lamas, or officers of "Red" of "White" detachments. Once, it is true the Yenisei River, in its springy floods brings a sight that neither author nor readers will ever...