A shooting trip to Kamchatka . nsk, where wemet them. On the 18th of May our train left Moscow con-veying my wife, Tallent, my valet Cristo, and my-self On the following- dav we met Mr. St. GeorcreLittledale at the Slaviansky l^azaar (Mrs. Littledalewas not one of the party this time on account of herhealth), and on the same evening the Siberian us off to distant lands. The trai)i dc luxestarts once a week, on Saturdays, and is due atIrkutsk on the following Monday week. Our ac-commodation was good, though there was none of theluxury of the Paris Exhibition train. The restauran
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . nsk, where wemet them. On the 18th of May our train left Moscow con-veying my wife, Tallent, my valet Cristo, and my-self On the following- dav we met Mr. St. GeorcreLittledale at the Slaviansky l^azaar (Mrs. Littledalewas not one of the party this time on account of herhealth), and on the same evening the Siberian us off to distant lands. The trai)i dc luxestarts once a week, on Saturdays, and is due atIrkutsk on the following Monday week. Our ac-commodation was good, though there was none of theluxury of the Paris Exhibition train. The restaurantwas moderate, and the food greasy. There are fourtrains attached to the service of the Siberian express,three of which are of the Russian model, and one ofthe International Slecj)ing Car Company. We chancedto take the latter, which, I believe, is not the best. THE SIBERIAN FRONTIER 27 However, there was little cause for complaint, and ourspirits rose at ev^ery turn of the wheel. We reached the Siberian frontier, Tcheliabinsk,. RUSSIAN PILCRIM WOMICN. without incident, on the 22nd, and joined M. Isvol-sky and his party, which, beside his family, consistedof the First Secretary of the Legation, M. de Pok-levsky, and of the new Russian Consul at Hakodadi, 28 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA M. Hedenstrom, who had hv-ed in the Far East,and took no sHght interest in sporting a matter of fact, his accounts of shooting in theAmur district contributed greatly to pass the longweary hours of inactivity, and his keen sense ofhumour, combined with a fertility of imagination,proved a great godsend to our small party. Ourother companions were two or three engineers, anda lady on her way to join her husband, one of theconstructors of the Manchurian railway. Anotherfellow-traveller, whom we constantly saw loungingin a corner of the car, and smoking cigarettes in amost tranquil mood, turned out to be a wealthymerchant travelling to his native town with thesole object of receiving the
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