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    Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail
    Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail
    Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail
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    Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail

    By Oliver George Ready

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    Release dateAug 1, 2010
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      Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail - Oliver George Ready

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      Title: Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail

      Author: Oliver George Ready

      Release Date: January 7, 2009 [EBook #27733]

      Language: English

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      Through Siberia and

      Manchuria By Rail

      Through

      Siberia

      and

      Manchuria

      By Rail

      BY

      OLIVER G. READY

      AUTHOR OF

      "Life and Sport in China"

      NOTE

      This short account of my journey from London to Shanghai by way of the Siberian Railway was at first intended for private circulation only, in order to meet the enquiries of numerous personal friends.

      Now, however, that war has broken out between Russia and Japan, and that it may be years before this, the longest railway in the world, is again open to international traffic, I feel that any information, however slight, concerning so stupendous an undertaking, as well as about the remote region which it traverses, may be of interest to the general public.

      I wish to emphasize that much of what is herein described was seen only from the windows of a moving train, and must therefore be lacking in that accuracy and detail which closer inspection could alone insure.

      The Russian words on the cover КТО ИДЕТЪ signify who goes there?, and the Chinese characters represent my surname. The Russian cross at the end, is that of the original Greek Church.

      Shanghai, 29th February, 1904.

      EASTWARD HO!

      I left Charing Cross on the 15th October, 1903, by the 10 a.m. boat-train for Dover. As we glided on I mentally said good-bye to familiar scenes, for I was outward bound, to put in another five years’ service under the dragon flag.

      At Dover we went aboard the Belgian rapide Ville de Douvres and in ten minutes were streaming at twenty miles an hour through the shipping on our way across Channel.

      It was a lovely day with fair wind and smooth sea, and had only the vessel’s bows been pointed in the opposite direction, I should have been perfectly happy, but they were not, so I had to make the best of things, which consisted in watching over the stern Old England’s chalk cliffs, gleaming white in the brilliant sunshine, slowly sink and disappear into the heaving main. . . . . . . Good-bye. Eastward ho!

      The Belgian coast was sighted at about 3 p.m.,

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