Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1899 — Life in Siberia. [ARTICLE]

Life in Siberia.

Wash Vanderlip, formerly of Elkhart, now in Siberia, writes his experience in Northern Siberia, and among other things he says: “I can eat seal fat and pure oil just like a native. I just gloat over a big piece of raw tallow, Tou see it is so dry and cold your system craves oil, oil all the time. A raw marrow bone is superb. When on the road I never wash my face. Have gone for twenty days unwashed. It is necessary to eat with my mittens on even close to the fire.”