Travelogues; . A WILDERNESS OF MUD On the ninth evening we roll into the great Siberian cityof Irkutsk — metropolis of northern Asia. We are on time tothe minute ; but this is not remarkable, for the schedule is soarranged that if the brakes were not in working order, eventhese leisurely, inexperienced trains would have difficulty inavoiding premature arrivals. We have covered the 5,107versts — roughly, equivalent to about three thousand miles— between Moscow and Irkutsk in nine days, that is, at anaverage speed of about fifteen miles an hour. 18 274 THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. IANUKAMA OK IRK

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Travelogues; . A WILDERNESS OF MUD On the ninth evening we roll into the great Siberian cityof Irkutsk — metropolis of northern Asia. We are on time tothe minute ; but this is not remarkable, for the schedule is soarranged that if the brakes were not in working order, eventhese leisurely, inexperienced trains would have difficulty inavoiding premature arrivals. We have covered the 5,107versts — roughly, equivalent to about three thousand miles— between Moscow and Irkutsk in nine days, that is, at anaverage speed of about fifteen miles an hour. 18 274 THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. IANUKAMA OK IRKUTSK AND The station is surrounded by a wilderness of mud ;between it and the city flows the rapid Angara, throughwhich the waters of Lake Baikal seek an outlet to the ArcticOcean. I have not told of the other splendid rivers we havecrossed, nor have I spoken of the Siberian cities which wepassed by night or day,— of Kourgan on the Tobol River,

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