Toward the Arctic Ocean.

The article describes the author's trip across Mongolia from the Chinese to the Trans-Siberian Railway. The Russian Consul sent his secretary with the author to make the rounds of the magnificent collection of secret service, passport and police department with which the would be modern Mongols toy. Cars started for Siberia, so read the announcement in the Russian newspaper of Urga. The mountain lay cold and bare to the south but warmly birch wooded on the northern slopes. The ice was out at the edges and the water flowing swiftly.