Through Siberia

CHAPTER XXVI.

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_ACROSS LAKE BAIKAL TO TROITZKOSAVSK._

Leaving Irkutsk.--The Angara.--Approach to the Baikal: its shores and fish.--Steaming across.--Seizing post-horses.--Arrival at Verchne Udinsk.--Smuggling at the prison.--Arrival at Selenginsk.--English mission to Buriats.--English graves.--Old scholars.--Story of the mission.--Journey to Troitzkosavsk 309