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Title: Siberia and the exile system
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Kennan, George, 1845-1924
Subjects: Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel
Publisher: new York : Century
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ible at the wrist. I did not feel ableto endure another jolt nor to ride another yard; andalthough we had made only thirty-three miles that daywe decided to stop for the night. Since landing in theTrans-Baikal we had had nothing to eat except bread, butat Mukhinskoe the station-masters wife gave us a goodsupper of meat, potatoes, and eggs. This, together with afew hours of troubled sleep which the fleas and bedbugspermitted us to get near morning, so revived our strengththat on Monday we rode seventy miles, and just beforemidnight reached the village of Selenginsk, near whichwas situated the lamasery of Goose Lake. On the rough plank floor of the cold and dirty post-station house in Selenginsk we passed another wretchednight. I was by this time in such a state of physical ex- A VISIT TO THE SELENGINSK LAMASEKY 73 haustion that in spite of bedbugs and of the noise made bythe arrival and departure of travelers I lost consciousnessin a sort of stupor for two or three hours. When I awoke,
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KHAINlIEF MUNKU AND HIS CHILDREN. however, at daybreak I found one eye closed and my facegenerally so disfigured by bedbug-bites that I was ashamedto call upon the authorities or even to show myself in the 74 SIBERIA street. Cold applications finally reduced the inflammation,and about ten oclock I set out in search of the Buriat chiefof police, Khainiiief Munku, who had been recommendedto us as a good Russiau and Buriat interpreter, and a manwell acquainted with the lamasery that we desired to visit.I found Khainiiief at the office of the district isprdvnik,where he was apparently getting his orders for the dayfrom the isjirdvnitfs secretary. He proved to be a tall,athletic, heavily built Buriat, about sixty years of age, witha round head, closely cut iron-gray hair, a thick bristlymustache, small, half-closed Mongol eyes, and a strong,swarthy, hard-featured, and rather brutal face. He wasdressed in a long, loose Buriat gown of some coarse gray-ish material, girt about the waist with

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