. Toutes les Russies : voyages et d'études européen contemporain dans la Russie, la Finlande, la Sibérie, le Caucase et l'Asie centrale. rkutsk, quatre balles de son fiveguards, et volé son or. Un jour, ils tiendront un train, et voler les passagers. Puis sans doute autorité assertitself. Je ne vois rien pour empêcher un tel acte. Dans un placelike ce les ingénieurs français n'ont absolument rien à penser à la porte, à l'exception de leur travail, et les longues soirées d'hiver passé dans aSiberian, rapide, portes de prescription doit être inexpres-éventuellement triste. Le Baikal est un magnifique navire de 4 000 tonnes, avec lits

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. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. rkutsk, shot four of its fiveguards, and stole its gold. Some day they will hold up a train, and rob the passengers. Then authority will doubtless assertitself. I do not see anything to prevent such an act. In a placelike this the English engineers have absolutely nothing to door think about, except their work, and the long evenings of aSiberian winter, spent within fast-barred doors, must be inexpres-sibly dreary. The Baikal is a magnificent vessel of 4, 000 tons, with twin THE GREAT SIBERIAN RAILWAY 121 engines amidships of 1, 250 horse-power each, and a similar en-gine forward, to drive the screw in the bow; for the principleof the new type of ice-breaker is to draw out the water fromunder the ice ahead by the suction of a bow-screw, when theice collapses by its own weight and a passage is forced throughthe broken mass by the impact of the vessel. As will be seenfrom my illustrations, the first that have been published, theBaikal has extensive upper w^orks, and these contain luxurious. The Steamship Baikal Steaming through the Ice. saloons and cabins. Upon her deck she carries three trains—a passenger train in the middle, and a freight train on eachside. Her speed is thirteen knots, and on her trial trips she hasshown herself capable of breaking through solid ice thirty-eightinches thick, with five inches of hard snow on the top—such snowis much more difilicult to pierce than ice—and has forced herway through two thicknesses of ice frozen together, aggregat-ing from fifty-six to sixty-five inches. In summer her bow pro-peller should be. removed, and large propellers substituted for her 122 ALL THE RUSSIAS smaller winter ones; but so far the railway authorities have takenno steps to build a dock upon the lake, without which neitherof these important changes can be effected, nor the steamerherself repaired if any mishap should damage her hull

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