This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...where the train arrived this morning, and stops three hours. It will soon be time for us to go back to it. "Between here and Dinskaya, beyond which our trains do not any longer go, there is only one long stoppage, at Karinsk, where we stop two hours. Thence we go on to Dinskaya; and from Dinskaya I hope to find means to travel toward the Japanese, till I come upon some one who will direct me how to get to my husband. CHAPTER XV THE PRISONER OF WAR "HTHE 6th. Ah, Yoshio, when you know what JL befell me two days after I wrote the above you will die of pity, if you do not shake with laughter. "After departing from Perin, where I last wrote, we arrived at Karinsk at about four in the afternoon. It was at Karinsk that Ivan Shtcherbakoff was bound to join the ranks of the Opolchenie battalion for which he had volunteered; but inasmuch as I had not found you, he had made up his mind not to give himself up at the barracks, but to come with me to the end. "We saw, however, that the risk was great, for notice of his coming must have been sent to headquarters here from St. Petersburg, and Karinsk is not a large town where one may hide oneself. When, therefore, he had come with Anna Pochowski and me to the inn, he left us in order to walk about the country, till the train should be about to start again. "We two others went into the inn, a house with a far-Eastern look in the middle of a court; / the eaves were low, and some of the windows had bars of iron across them, as in prisons. We were led by a stout Mongolian woman, who could speak some Russian, into a room at the back, on the ground floor, and soon were eating a stew of rice and meat. While we were paying the woman for this, she entered into talk with us, telling us...