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Tales from Tolstoi board too. They weighed anchor, left port, and sailed forth upon the sea. All day they sailed prosperously, but in the evening the wind arose and the rain came; the vessel began to rock and ship water. The people were pitched to and fro, the women began to wail, and the leader of the muzhiks began to run about the ship to seek a place to lie upon. Fear overcame Efim also, but he did not show it. As he had sat on his arrival from the steppe, side by side with a pilgrim from Tambov, so he continued to sit all night and the whole of the next day; all they did was to guard their knapsacks in silence. On the third day it was calm. On the fifth day they came to Tsar'grad. Those of the pilgrims who had landed went to see the temple of the Divine Wisdom, where the Turks now held sway; Tarasuich did not land, but remained on the ship. They remained there twenty-four hours, and then they again put to sea. They stopped again at the town of Smyrna; the next city they stopped at was Alexandria, and so they arrived safely at the town of Jaffa. At Jaffa all the pilgrims landed, and they had seventy versts to go on foot to Jerusalem. And fear again seized the people as they landed, for the ship was lofty, and they threw the people down into the little boat, and the boat rocked to and fro, and didn't bear even looking at, but they had to go; one or two of the men got a ducking, but they were all safely landed. They were landed, and continued their journey on foot, and on the fourth day they came to Jerusalem. They remained outside the

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