Show t j fc rt 1 ruu nw t fl 5 f w n 1 r j Winter Journey Jou Moscow Mosco Mukden to 1 I Ii i Y i f N Jan 14 I left London LondonI 1 yM Mi I the th tl 1 day doy utter after a Boxing day doY spent my m Now New No Years Year Yc r day any In tho the Trans TransI 4 I 1 1 Siberian somewhere east cast of ot Moscow have been traveling since then I for tor 14 H days day by train with the except exception ton tion of at crossing Lake Lako It Is rs IsNow I Now NolY Years day again The 1st pat of It Jan January January I uary In England la Is tho the of at Decem l 1 U ber bar In l n nus la consequently co q I en enjoyed enjoyed joyed loved nil all the tho benefits benent of eI two Christ Christmas Chrt t mas dad and New eW Years days daya within a month Having crossed all the Ibo great water highways of ot Apia Aela now frozen and con converted conversed versed into white roads rond I 1 at ut length reached and the great Baikal lake Jake which cuts cute In two the tho great Iron Iran highway to the tho east eMt In the clear windless windle air one ana could see aco for tor I mule and across the white plain tho the backed ridges of at the mountains of ot looked as BS It If they were but a IL mile or two IWO away awny The Th ther thermometer thermometer thermometer showed shoved minus 20 0 degrees 11 degrees a of at frost and beard and ue within within a IL minute minute or or two beard and mun mUR n were vero frozen to 10 tho the fur tur of ot my but the stillness of ot the tho air led mo me mota to doubt the accuracy of ot the tho ther therm thermometer thermometer till I saw Raw Ia the condensed ed water from tro the locomotives freezing In stalactite stalactite tite as IU It dripped from the tho cyl cylInders Inders In den The whole landscape was coy cov covered ered Bred with lIh a white dust dusl It Jl was WAil dry and hard ns S sand hint but It was snow and It gleamed and glistened In the tho rays of ot the tho sun flun like myriads of diamonds Presently Ires a n huge hugo ship appeared nfl although you ou could not not Irn Im Imagine agine It to be a I ship unless you were ul III already ready aware of oC the fact It looked more like a 1 huge self d sleigh She was making her way WA along ulong a I Uj ck of ot lumpy lump broken Ice which disappeared appeared Il ahead and reappeared astern giving the tho Idea Idel that she sho was nl just lust sliding over oer It It 11 was the great greal steam ferry and andIce n nand Ice breaker Baikal and presently she had discharged her load of empty tail rail railway ralla way a wagons received 29 9 full ones and we started on our way across the tle lake Is la a I huge hugo plain of ot Ice let at ut pres present present prest ent ant about three feet thick and getting thicker every minute In some lama places It looks like polished black marble In others It Is virgin white A fined track runs rune across It the path of at |