six o’clock in the
evening
On what were they to live on the way ? By what superhuman energy were they to pass the slopes of the Sayansk Mountains ? Neither he nor Nadia could answer this ! And yet , twelve days after , on the 2d of October , at six o'clock in the evening , a wide sheet of water lay at Michael Strogoff 's feet . It was Lake Baikal . LAKE BAIKAL is situated seventeen hundred feet above the level of the sea . Its length is about six hundred miles , its breadth seventy .