At Manchuli Porters here are' good. Take number of the brass check, follow luggage into Customs Hall and leave porter with it. Go tu money exchange window and find out what time the ticket office for Chita opens. If you speak Chinese, you may get a clever Chinese' who will buy your ticket for you. Go to the station buffet If time' to spend, a droshky dri round "the town" will take half an hour and' two gold roubles. When the Customs are finished with you and you have your ticket your porters will take the luggage to the Chita train, Give. him at least a yen or gold rouble. Do not let the ticket office clerk bully you into changing your gold roubles Chgrvoynetz back. into silver Romanoff roubles. This is evidently a "squeeze pidgin" with the exchange shop men.
After Manchuli there is a passport examination on the train and Inter a customs examination on the train. You need not fear giving up the passport to the officials on this Siberian trip. They examine and return later.
At Chita, Let your porter take you to the Verkne Udinsk booking office. Get ticket and platzkar: You may have to stand a long time in the queue. Then, seven yards away, is the Verkne Udinsk to Moscow office. They have. not second-class tickets, so they issue you two. third-class ones. The Whole Chita~ to Moscow ticket, second class, costs 130 gold roubles.
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