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CHAPTER II.
THE STEPPES OF WESTERN SIBERIA.
The Siberian Train—The West Siberian Lowlands—A Dreary Plain—Life
on the Train—Lying as a Pastime—Dinner by the Way—The
Kirgises—Colonisation of the Akmolinsk Steppe—Miseries of the
Emigrants.
On the Siberian train, which had modern bogey-carriages,
we succeeded in getting a comfortable compartment. To
the train were attached a large number of vans for “horses
and men,” which were overcrowded with emigrants. Besides
the emigrants, there was nothing that characterised the train
as differing in any way from that on any ordinary Russian
line. The carriages were comfortable, the passengers of
the first and second class were merchants and officials;
those of the third class a mixtum compositum of all peoples
and languages. Life on board, too, was the same as on a
Russian train: the passengers bringing with them a pile of
bedclothes, a large basket of provisions, tea-set, etc. This
causes much crowding, but friction is prevented by common
good humour and amiability. As we advanced farther
into Siberia, however, things changed somewhat, as we
shall see.
The train now carried us very slowly eastward over the
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