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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: Michael Strogoff's plan was simply this -- to reach Koly-
van before the arrival of the Usbeck horsemen, who would
ascend the other bank of the Obi to the ferry. There he
would procure clothes and a horse, and r‚sum‚ the road to
Irkutsk across the southern steppe.
It was now three o'clock in the morning. The neighbor-
hood of Kolyvan was very still, and appeared to have been
totally abandoned. The country population had evidently
fled to the northwards, to the province of Yeniseisk, dread-
ing the invasion, which they could not resist.
Michael was walking at a rapid pace towards Kolyvan
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