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After another lunch and a pleasant chat of an hour or more with Mr. Sulkófski, Frost and I returned to Tróitskosávsk and spent the remainder of the afternoon in exploring the bazar, or town market, and the queer Chinese and
BAZAAR AND CHINESE SHOPS IN TRÓITSKOSÁVSK
Mongolian shops shown in the above illustration. In one of these shops we were astonished to find an old second-hand copy of Dickens's All the Year Round. How it came there I could hardly imagine, but it seemed to me that if the periodical literature of Great Britain was represented in one of the shops of the Tróitskosávsk bazar we ought to find there also a copy of some American magazine left by a
