. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across ar) for his share of the work,and we were all en regie to enter the Eussian Empire. AVe got our bag-gage ready, and were at the station when the train arrived; the station-master delivered our passports, and collected his fee along with the feesof the conductor and consul, and that ended the whole business. Theconsul knew nothing about any of the persons named in the passports,and we might have been conspirators or anything else that was ob
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across ar) for his share of the work,and we were all en regie to enter the Eussian Empire. AVe got our bag-gage ready, and were at the station when the train arrived; the station-master delivered our passports, and collected his fee along with the feesof the conductor and consul, and that ended the whole business. Theconsul knew nothing about any of the persons named in the passports,and we might have been conspirators or anything else that was objection-able, and nobody would have been the wiser. Eussia is the only country PASSPORT NOT COliRECT. TRAVELLERS EXAMINED. in Europe that keeps up the passport system with any severity, and it onlyresults in putting honest people to trouble and expense, and never stopsthose whom it is intended to reach. There, theyve opened the door, andwe can now go before the representatives of the autocrat of all the Rus-sias. One by one they approached the desk, with the result already the examination of the baggage in the custom-house the clothing and. IN THK PASSPORT BUREAU. personal effects of our friends were passed without question, but there wassome difficulty over a few books which the boys had bought before leav-ing Yienna. One volume, pronounced objectionable, was seized as con-traband, but the others were not taken. Every book written by a foreign- 44 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. er about Russia is carefullj examined by the official censor as soon as itis publislied,and upon his decision depends the question of its circulation,being allowed in the Empire. Anjthiiig calculated to throw disrespectupon the Imperial family, or upon the Government in general, is prohib-ited, as well as everything which can be considered to have a revolution-ary tendency. They are not so rigid as they used to be, growled the Englishman,as he closed and locked his trunk after the e
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