. 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 without difficulty. As late as 1860 every visitor to Kiachtawas searched, to make sure that he had no gold coin in liis possession. 23 35^ THE BOY TRAVELLERS 1NTHE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. CHAPTER XYIIL GENERAL ASPECTS OF MAI-MAI-CHIX.—DINNER WITH A CHINESE GOVERNOR.—A THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE.—LAKE BAIKAL: ITS REMARKABLE FEATURES.—A WONDERFUL RIDE.—IRKUTSK.—ITS POPULATION, SIZE, AND PECULIARITIES.—SOCIAL GAYETIES.—PREPARATIONS FOR A LONG SLEIGH-RIDE.
. 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 without difficulty. As late as 1860 every visitor to Kiachtawas searched, to make sure that he had no gold coin in liis possession. 23 35^ THE BOY TRAVELLERS 1NTHE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. CHAPTER XYIIL GENERAL ASPECTS OF MAI-MAI-CHIX.—DINNER WITH A CHINESE GOVERNOR.—A THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE.—LAKE BAIKAL: ITS REMARKABLE FEATURES.—A WONDERFUL RIDE.—IRKUTSK.—ITS POPULATION, SIZE, AND PECULIARITIES.—SOCIAL GAYETIES.—PREPARATIONS FOR A LONG SLEIGH-RIDE.—LIST OF GAR-MENTS.—VARIETIES OF SLEIGHS.—FAREWELL TO IRKUTSK.—SLEIGHING INCI-DENTS.—FOOD ON THE ROAD.—SIBERIAN MAILS.—ADVANTAGES OF WINTERTRAVELLING.—SLEIGHING ON BARE GROUND.—A SNOWLESS REGIOX.—KRAS-NOYARSK. Y OU have been in China, I believe, said Mr. Hegeman, during thepause that followed the story of how the Russian and Chinese mer-chants circumvented the stipulations of the treaty. Oh yes, Frank responded. AYe were at Peking, which is, I think,only eight hundred miles from Kiachta. We went from Peking to the. SCENE IN A CHINESE TEMPLE. Great Wall of China, so that we were less than seven hundred miles fromthe point where you called on the Sargootchay. You can learn about ourjourney in The Boy Travellers in Japan and China. THE CLEANEST TOWN IN CHINA. 355 I shall read the book with great pleasure, was the reply, now thatI have met the youths whose travels are described in it. As you haveseen the Chinese at home, and know their manners and customs, I wonttake your time by telling you what I saw in Mai-mai-chin, which is justlike any other Chinese city in nearly every respect. 1 may add that it is said to be the cleanest town in all China. It isonly half a mile square, carefully laid out, and its streets are swept daily.
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