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of starting our Buddhist library with a number of early texts and commentaries in at least three (probably many more) tongues, should be eagerly accepted.
Although very anxious to spend a longer time at Urga, I realized that I could not expect to obtain a final solution of any of the problems which had been suggested, and that my mission would be better fulfilled by proposing these problems to your Committee than by attempting to carry on immediate investigations, which indeed would have been impossible. For this reason I took cart on July fifteenth to the trans-Siberian railway, which I joined at Virshne Udinsk on Lake Baikal.
Having almost exhausted my ready money and finding it impossible to get more, I took a third-class passage by the slow Russian train to St. Petersburg and after making a stop of a night and a day at Irkutsk to visit the little museum of local antiquities, reached it on the evening of the day that Germany and Russia declared war.
[[underlined]] ST. PETERSBURG. [[/underlined]] At St. Petersburg, although I was forced to await the mobilization of troops before I could leave the city, good fortune did not desert me, and I was able to spend my days at the Museum of the Emperor Alexander III, which was closed to the public. Again I reviewed the Kozloff finds in company with Dr. Alexander Miller, as I had done the previous year, but this time with a fuller knowledge. Prince dy Oukhtomsky was just returned from an expedition in the Western part of Mongolia, and from him I secured for the School opportunities for work in the West and South of Mongolia, of a character which other nations had sought but been refused. We shall gain not only the support of Russia within her sphere of influence,

Transcription Notes:
Virahne Udinsk should read Virshne Udinsk