four in the evening
Magnificent jets , from springs of boiling water , shot up from some of those artesian wells which Nature has bored in the very bed of the lake . These jets rose to a great height and spread out in vapor , which was illuminated by the solar rays , and almost immediately condensed by the cold . This curious sight would have assuredly amazed a tourist traveling in peaceful times on this Siberian sea . At four in the evening , the mouth of the Angara was signaled by the old boatman , between the high granite rocks of the shore . On the right bank could be seen the little port of Livenitchnaia , its church , and its few houses built on the bank . But the serious thing was that the ice blocks from the East were already drifting between the banks of the Angara , and consequently were descending towards Irkutsk . However , their number was not yet great enough to obstruct the course of the raft , nor the cold great enough to increase their number .