. 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 d endeavored to find the time-taljle of the railway, witha view to making an excursion into Turkestan. Their inquiries were re-warded with the information that there was no regular time for runningthe trains, as the business transacted on the line was nearly all of a mili-tary character. But a train was to leave in the morning for Kizil Arvat,one hundred and forty-four miles, and if they cared to make the journeythey were at liberty to do s
. 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 d endeavored to find the time-taljle of the railway, witha view to making an excursion into Turkestan. Their inquiries were re-warded with the information that there was no regular time for runningthe trains, as the business transacted on the line was nearly all of a mili-tary character. But a train was to leave in the morning for Kizil Arvat,one hundred and forty-four miles, and if they cared to make the journeythey were at liberty to do so. Finding they would have time to go to Kizil Arvat and return beforethe departure of the steamer for Baku, they accepted the invitation, whichincluded the Doctor as well as themselves. Early the next morning the 464 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. train rolled out from the station; it consisted of a locomotive and ten ortwelve carriages. One carriage contained the officers of a regiment of in-fantry that filled the remaining vehicles; the regiment was bound for thefrontier, where England and Russia have latterly been discussing the ques-. TURCOMAN WOMAN SPINNING. tion of the boundary, and a discussion of this kind is materially assistedby the presence of soldiers. We will refer to Freds account of the railway journey in Turkestan. We were invited to seats in the carriage where the officers were rid-ing. They did everything to make our journey agreeable, and we wereindebted to them for a great deal of information about Central Asia. SCARCITY OF WATER. 4G5 Some of them had been to the British frontier, and one had visited Cabul,Herat, and Candaliar. The route of the railway was partly across the desert, and partlyalong the valleys of tw^o or three small rivers of no special importance ex-cept for their usefulness in supplying water for the line. For a consider-able distance the line lies near the Etrek, a river that was of great use toGeneral Skobeleff in his advance
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