Travelogues; . A TYPICAL GATEWAY. LOG STRUCTURES THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY 289 one foot, gently, then the other, as if fearful of the con-sequence of every step. Why this unseemly caution ? Therails appear well laid, the roadbed seems firm. Why not gofaster.^ And as we ask the question, another turn revealsthe reason and the cause of caution, a wrecked locomotive,partially submerged. Content, therefore, to ride over thisnew, almost untried line at a rate of less than seven milesan hour, up this valley which with every mile becomes more

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