236 THROUGH RUSSIA ON A MUSTANG. 



heavens at the farther end by the curious legerdemain 

 of the desert. The aeolian music of its triple wires, as 

 the desert breezes played through them, and the mes- 

 sages flashed past from India to England, from England 

 to India — how companionable it was, that bit of civili- 

 zation in a barbarous country, only those who have been 

 similarly placed know. 



