BOUXUARY BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA 



CHAPTER XXV. 



FROM LONDON TO OMSK. 



At St. Petersburg — Political Feeling in Russia — Feeling against England 

 — Russian Arguments against the Policy of England — At Moscow — 

 Irkutsk and the Siberiaks — At Nishni Novgorod — The Journey before Us 

 — Our Sledge — Birds — At Kazan — Roads between Kazan and Perm — At 

 Perm — At Kongur — -The Urals — Birds — We 'Enter Asia — Ekaterinburg 

 — Tinmen — The Steppes — Villages of the Crescent and the Cross — 

 Russian and Mahomedan Clergy — Cheap Provisions — Birds. 



We left London on Thursday, the ist of March, 1877, 

 at 8.25 P.M., and reached Nishni Novgorod on Saturday 

 the loth at 10 a.m., having travelled by rail a distance of 

 2400 miles. We stopped three days in St. Petersburg 

 to present our letters of introduction, and to pay some 

 other visits. We had audiences with the Minister of the 

 Interior and with the Minister of Finance, both of whom 



