three in the morning
I need scarcely say that Faruskiar , with all the authority of the company 's general manager , took part in the different formalities that were needed at Tcharkalyk . I do not know how to praise him sufficiently . Besides , he was repaid for his good offices by the deference shown him by the staff at the railway station . At three in the morning we arrived at Kara Bouran , where the train stopped but a few minutes . Here the railway crosses the route of Gabriel Bonvalot and Prince Henri of Orleans across Tibet in 1889-90 , a much more complete journey than ours , a circular trip from Paris to Paris , by Berlin , Petersburg , Moscow , Nijni , Perm , Tobolsk , Omsk , Semipalatinsk , Kouldja , Tcharkalyk , Batong , Yunnan , Hanoi , Saigon , Singapore , Ceylon , Aden , Suez , Marseilles , the tour of Asia , and the tour of Europe . The train halts at Lob Nor at four o'clock and departs at six . This lake , the banks of which were visited by General Povtzoff in 1889 , when he returned from his expedition to Tibet , is an extensive marsh with a few sandy islands , surrounded by two or three feet of water .