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rary wooden pier, as the rails would not fit. We were 

 shown our respective cars. These turned out to be 

 ordinary luggage vans roughly adapted for passengers ; 

 two or three square openings represented the win- 



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WITHDRAWING TRAIN FROM S.S. " BAIKAL" (MYSSOVAIA). 



dows, and a wooden partition divided the carriage into 

 separate compartments, while the furniture consisted 

 of a table and two stools. They were used by the 

 engineers of the line, who apparently never aired 

 their dwelling ; the atmosphere was dense and stuffy, 

 and the panes were stuck to the wall with thick brown 



