Here is one just coming in, composed of Armenian merchants.

There is one going out, formed of traders in Persia and Russian Turkestan.

I should like to arrive with one and depart with the other.

That is not possible, and I am sorry for it.

Since the establishment of the Transasiatic railways, it is not often that you can meet with those interminable and picturesque lines of horsemen, pedestrians, horses, camels, asses, carts.