. The Russian road to China . BAIKAL STATION. THE HIGHLANDS OF TRANSBAIKALIA SLEDGING IN TRANSBAIKALIA 117 ^ Ras, dva, treT* to keep the step. We pass the bar-racks, the shops with their brightly illustrated signs,and ride under the wooden yellow-painted Alex-ander Arch. Soon we reach a street of low log houses, and alofty boarded enclosure is ahead. At its gateway isswinging a black signboard, painted with post-hornand the Czars double-headed eagle. ^PostavaStancie, is inscribed over the lintel. Between theblack and white-striped gate-posts we swing intothe courtyard. To the left stretches a
. The Russian road to China . BAIKAL STATION. THE HIGHLANDS OF TRANSBAIKALIA SLEDGING IN TRANSBAIKALIA 117 ^ Ras, dva, treT* to keep the step. We pass the bar-racks, the shops with their brightly illustrated signs,and ride under the wooden yellow-painted Alex-ander Arch. Soon we reach a street of low log houses, and alofty boarded enclosure is ahead. At its gateway isswinging a black signboard, painted with post-hornand the Czars double-headed eagle. ^PostavaStancie, is inscribed over the lintel. Between theblack and white-striped gate-posts we swing intothe courtyard. To the left stretches a low log the right, along the wall, are ranked sledges. Infront are the stalls. Grooms, whip in hand, standaround in the courtyard, muffled against the cold. Is the gaspadine going on? one of them asks. On the reply, Yes, at once, he scurries off tostart harnessing, and you shoulder open the lowfelted door of the post-house and enter the bigwaiting-room. Three horses ? asks the young black-mustachedagent within. Yes, a troika sledge.
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