WOMAN’S 6666 MILE RIDE
A ride of stupendous length, being no less than 6366 miles—from Harbin to St Petersburg—lias just been concluded by, ■tho widow of a Cossack officer, Madame Kudasheff," who undertook the great journey in order to prove the endurance -of- which Russian women, and Cossacks -in 'particular, are capable. Her mount was an. eight year old Mongolian ihoroagtbrod posiy, and throughout the tour tho rider attended to him" herself, looking after him so well that he has shown no sign of a gall. Tho greatest aimace. traveled by her in a single day was 53 miles, and ■ the shortest ten .milesShe took with her a cavalryman’s, pack, containing a change of clothe*! and linen, a brush and a currreombe, and ehe also carried a dagger and a revolver Dot-pita the bitter cold in Siberia, she never wore 'gloves or basblik (woollen hood), and only once hud her. hands and face frostbitten, **
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7871, 5 August 1911, Page 1
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154WOMAN’S 6666 MILE RIDE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7871, 5 August 1911, Page 1
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