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Identifier: siberiaexilesyst01kenn (find matches)
Title: Siberia and the exile system
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Kennan, George, 1845-1924
Subjects: Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia) -- Exiles
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ck rye-bread, fish-pies, hard-boiled eggs, milk, and kms, and in half an hour they wereall sitting on the ground, singly or in groups, eating theirlunch. With the permission of Captain Gudlm, Mr. Frosttook a photograph of them, which is here reproduced, andabout two oclock the party resumed its journey. The afternoon march was without noteworthy incident.The hrodyd(js talked constantly as they walked, raisingtheir voices so as to make themselves heard above the jing-ling of the chains, while the novices generally listened orasked questions. There is the same difference between ahrodydg who has been to the mines half a dozen times anda novice who is going for the first time, that there is be-tween an experienced cowboy and a tenderfoot. Thehrodydg knows the road as the tongue knows the mouth;he has an experimental acquaintance with the temper andcharacter of every convoy officer from Tomsk to Kara; andhis perilous adventures in the taigd—the primeval Siberian DEPORTATION BY ETAPE 381
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bkodyAgs ou kunaway convicts. 382 SIBERIA forest linve given to him a self-confidence and a decision of character that make him the natural leader in every con-vict party. It is the boast of the true hrochjag that theostr6() (the prison) is his father and the taifid (the wilderness)his mother; and he often spends his whole life in goingfrom one parent to the other. He rarely escapes from Si-beria altogether, although he may reach half a dozen timesthe valley of the Ob. Sooner or later he is almost alwaysrecaptured, or is forced by cold and starvation to give him-self up. As an etape officer once said to a hrodydg rear-rested in Western Siberia, The Tsars cow-pasture is large,but you cant get out of it; we find you at last if you arenot dead. The conversation of the hrodydgs in the party that weaccompanied related chiefly to their own exploits and ad-ventures at the mines and in the taiga, and it did not seemto be restrained in the least by the presence of the soldiersof the convoy. Th

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