You must be a Tartar to appreciate this koumiss.

At least that is the effect it produced on me.

But Popof thought it excellent, and that was the important point.
Most of the Sarthes and Kirghizes who got out at Askhabad, have been replaced by other second-class passengers, Afghan merchants and smugglers, the latter particularly clever in their line of business.
All the green tea consumed in Central Asia is brought by them from China through India, and although the transport is much longer, they sell it at a much lower price than the Russian tea.

I need not say that their luggage was examined with Muscovite minuteness.
The train started again at four o'clock.

Our car was still a sleeper.