When I eventually arrived at St. Petersburg I must have looked something like a tramp. A great many people who had made the same journey were dazed and exhausted—many of us had not taken off our clothes for days. We were all thoroughly exhausted, The major: ity were without money, and a great many had lost all their luggage at Berlin and other places. T took the first train carrying passengers from St. Petersburg, and had my railway ticket and about $50, kindly loaned to me by a Russian official. After the nightmare of the journey in Sweden, our trip as far as Irkutsk in a carriage attached to a military train was simply heaven. Tt secned as though I was to be held up at Irkutsk, but by the kindness of the Russian Attache at Peking I was
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