If I were to stop that old fortune teller and his companions my incognito would run a risk of being discovered.

Besides, now they have landed, before they can pass the frontier I shall be far beyond it.

They may take the route from Kasan to Ishim, but that affords no resources to travelers.

Besides a tarantass, drawn by good Siberian horses, will always go faster than a gypsy cart! Come, friend Korpanoff, be easy." By this time the man and Sangarre had disappeared.
Kasan is justly called the "Gate of Asia" and considered as the center of Siberian and Bokharian commerce; for two roads begin here and lead across the Ural Mountains.

Michael Strogoff had very judiciously chosen the one by Perm and Ekaterenburg.