ABSTRACT
On his visit to Irkutsk Krebs had arranged for us to have better postal connections with home than we had previously enjoyed. Mails were now sent from Denmark to the “Great Northern” offices at Irkutsk, whence the kindly Danish telegraph officials undertook to have them sent on to Khathyl, a little colony of half a dozen Russian houses on the southern point of the lake of Hubso Gol. The distance from Bulgun Tal to Khathyl was about eighty-two miles (124 versts) and thus far less than from Bulgun Tal to Urga which was all of three hundred and seventy miles.
