BOUNDARY 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 

 Tiumen 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 



