Travelogues; (1917) (14596493337)

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Title: Travelogues;

Year: 1917 (1910s)

Authors: Holmes, Burton, b. 1870

Subjects: Argentina -- Description and travel Chile -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel South America -- Description and travel Iguassu Falls

Publisher: Chicago, Travelogue Bureau

Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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o < < in D THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY 233 across the somber lands of eastern Russia, where there isHttle to reheve the sad monotony, save the crossing ofseveral rivers, and glimpses of the big ragged cities of Sizranand Samara, which rise upon the banks of the greatestwaterway of Russia, the old highroad to the South, themighty Volga. But that which will linger longest in our

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WAGONS-LITS memory is the hopeless aspect of the Russian villages, whichlook like groups of hay-stacks or of mounds of refuse. Wecannot at first believe that the shapeless heaps scatteredaround one or two frame-houses and a modest church are theabodes of human beings. But in these congeries of hovelswe touch the very depths of Russian misery ; as we leave the 234 THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY

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1917

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