One can see what this, first station of the Transcaspian will be like in fifty years; a great city after having been a great railway station.
Do not think that there are no hotels.

Among others there is the Hotel du Czar, which has a good table, good rooms and good beds.

But the question of beds has no interest for me.

As the train starts at four o'clock this afternoon, to begin with, I must telegraph to the _Twentieth Century,_ by the Caspian cable, that I am at my post at the Uzun Ada station.

That done, I can see if I can pick up anything worth reporting.
Nothing is more simple.