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Why is the journey through Siberia called monotonous? Mainly, I think, for two reasons, one based on the time of year when it is frequently undertaken, the other connected with the temperament of the traveller. In winter, doubtless, it is monotonous in the extreme, for a thick pall of snow kills the colour and bids: the features of the landscape, making all more or less alike and the winter in these parts is long. Nine days in stuffy carriages, with closed windows opaque

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The journey falls naturally into three parts from Moscow through the Urals to the confines of Asia; thence to Irkutsk; and from there, through Kharbin, to From Ufa we wind up valleys beneath Vladivostock or Mukden and beyond. The the rocky banks of tributary streams, and first section occupies two full nights pass now and then through something and days; its chief outstan ling features that might for a moment be almost mis Once or are the crossing of the Volga and the taken for a mountain gorge. Passage through the Ural mountain chain, twice you even expect a whistle and the Bat it is not to You wake the first morning after leaving plungo into a tunnel. Moscow to notice a difference from the be. No tunnel has been entered in the dead flats that looked so dull as you 3,000 miles or so from Ostend or Hook approached that city from the West of Holland to this spot, and the Urals, through Warsaw. The surface, diligently too, are traversed and more than half the cultivated, and glowing with the con breadth of Asia beyond them before the trasted hues of harvest-dark rich earth first is mol with. The character of the in furrows, clumps of trees, large diversi mountains where the railway crosses them fed stretches of green, the faded gold of may be partly judged from this fact ripening vale, and here and there a Nothing rugged; no oraga or peaks, or gorgeous field of sunflowers in full bicom precipitous slopes, though some of the -grown for their seed and the oil it hills are high. Clothed for the most part yielda-is that of a gently undulating luxuriantly with firs from base to summit, plan, and the curves are refreshing to they are individually far less mountaincus the eye. It is as though the land bad in appearance than the Jura range. taken the movement of a softly heaving There is not one that does not look as ocean, in low waves of enormous length, though it could be strolled up with ease. The illusion is increased by the passage from any side. But the range collectively of the train, which changes slowly the is vast. We round a curve and open out perspective of each largo succeeding a vista spreading wide in all directions ridge. The scheme of colour and general It is a gentle hollow of immense extent pictorial effect are as if some landscape a vast cup in the heart of the hille, forcat by De Wint, magnified to an unbeard-of grown as far as the eye can see, up to the sch had come into being before your lips of the ridges that close it in; and eyes. But a strange touch of quaintness the recollection of the Jura is as of a is given by the domes and belfries of the lump that might be dropped in the centre We follow up churches and the wooden windmills, which of the cap and hidden. rise on the horizon above the crests of beside a stream, winding, clear, and the billows from the villagos sheltered gracay baked, warm in the afternoon in their hollows. Presently you notice eun, nestling beneath the firs in a glade higler alepe, better defined, dropping between the slopes--a delectable, country down to what might almost be the course where ous would fan linger and watch of a small stream at ite foot. A village the Eshermen in their waders, as in of thatched roofs is splashed upon the hill England, at home. side, looking precisely like a luxuriant

The route continues upward, und wa growth of dark rectangular mushrooms. Two patches of vivid contrast alone stand emerge from this delicious region into out-the white church with tall dome and more open land, where the hills, as high belfry roofed in green among the hovels, as any we have passed, are cultivated to the very top-spot faintly recalling and the great white flock of village geese some fertile parts of the southern uplanda on the vivid grass of the nearer fore of Scotlar 1. And then the long descent, ground.

De until, long after sunset, a friendly con And so the day wears on, while ductor, peering into the darkness, will

"the surmount gradually watershed point out a looming object among the between Don and Volga, and at night the bushes on the railway bank, and you see excitement of the Volga comea. The moon for an instant as you hurry past the low is nearly ful and necks are crared from ston, obelisk erected to mark the con- the windows for the first glint of its lazy vontional spot where Europe enda and waters far below. But this is the centre Axis at last begins

INVESTMENTS IN THE MALAY STATES.

of a great oil district, and the busy station of unlovely Batraki, with all its Paraphernalia for the traffic in petro- leur, must first be passed the same that a few miles further on will reflect the brilliance of its lights, agleaming picture, on the surface of the river, A stretch of loose sand bank, ever insecure The Malay Mail recently offered two and passed by the train with care, and small money prizes for an abstract of the we turn end on to the river and make information g von in the share liste the passage of the great bridge of Sizran,

from which you can watch & steamer published in the paper, and in some towing a long flotilla of lighed barges remarks on the results our contemporary up-stream below. And so ends the first makes the following interesting com- day. Tomorrow to the Urals fresh woods and pastures new.

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It would be misleading to give the actual figures of ery of the abstracts because the list from which they are made

The change is striking. The approach. to the mountains gradually becomes more contained two investment companies (now hilly, until a most suddenly, you face, placed under General), a Sumatra com r'ght abend. the lofty bluff, crowned by pany, the Duff Development Co., Pabang a tover which marks the site of the large Consolidated (the last two having other city of Ufa, on the far side of the broad interests besides planting), Pulau Bulang river Bicla, a notable tributary of the fat strictly in the Malay Peninsula), Volga. Uta spreads below and stretches Bud at least one agricultural company about the base of the bluff, which forme a planting no rubber at all. promontory round which the river benca away. There is a momentary excitement, the train stops, the people on the roads look back and ran A poor woman crossing the unguarded line has been on the list at all; debenture issues are not struck by the engine and had her arm reckoned as capital and there are still a out off. She is lifted in and carried on certain number of comparatively large with us to the station.

ostates owned by private individuals,

On the other band. the paid-up capital coluram is more likely to be under than over the mark; a few more or less private ly owned companies or syndicates are not

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This much is clear. On paper the equivalent of at least £25,000,000 has been invested in peninsula rubber properties, or nearly £215,000,000. These figures include sterling, dollar, rupee and tael companies. We say on paper, because no doubt a certain amount of this money was vendors and promoters profits which went direct into investments elsewhere and was never actually circulated or otherwise used out here. These figures do not include the value of native holdings scattered all over the country, th

The mining companies show a capital of about $30,000,000. The figures are only do not approximate and of course represent the amount invested in, the mining industry, which is largely in the hands of private individuals. Last year there were not a dozen mining companies in the whole F.M.S. paying a larger dividend than 10 per cent,

The dividend figures for agriculture are too incomplete to be reliable, but wo may take it that at least 80 agricultural companice paid an average dividend of about o per cent. last year and that over a hundred agricultural companies paid an average dividend of about 47 per cent. whex rubber was sky high this was pos- she, yet it would be very misleading to quote this figure when dealing with pre- sat and future problems. There are 242 companies now on our list engaged in Peninsula. Two or three of these com- Panting rubber or coconuta in the Malay paries also work for tin,

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