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Title: Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system;
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Simpson, James Young, 1873-1934
Subjects: Prisons -- Soviet Union Exiles -- Russia (Federation) Siberia Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ethere already, till of his good pleasure he opens the woodendoors. And if you pass along at the right time, you will seemultitudes of horses and mares attended by frisking foals,of cows with calves, and of lesser goats sauntering home-wards along the road. Then as each detachment comes op-posite its quarters it breaks off, and the diminished body,neighing and lowing and bleating, moves on. An easy- 80 TRAVEL IN SIBERIA. going company, for if any of them feel wearied they simplylie down in the middle of the thoroughfare and obstruct thepassage; and when to these at other times of the day areadded dogs, sheep, poultry, pigs, and children, it often seemsas if all the life of the place were in the street. The peasant culture of the land is primitive but successful.The regular brown patches on the hillsides in the Far Eastbetoken the agriculturist; but when one passes the lonelyploughman despondently trudging behind his team of adozen sturdy oxen, who require the constant attention of two
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Till Ihe i/iaster returns. youngsters continually rushing from one end of the lineto the other plying their goads, it is possible to under-stand the cost. The villages on the highroad as far as Lake Baikalbecome poorer as one journeys towards the east. The con-tinuity of the double row of cottages is broken, in fact is lost:each man settles where he feels inclined. There is also ashrinkage in the size of the individual building. They aremore often awry, and covered with damaged roofs, and thelive stock that patrol the road are not present in such THE ANGARA. 81 great force. The village dogs likewise gain in ugliness: infact it was sometimes difficult to understand where dogended and wolf began. Life on the traJd is a most monotonous experience, and ifyou insist on travelling by night it may also be most tiring.For days at a time the scenery does not change: you knowwhat you are coming to, what you may look for, exceptin those cases when escaped convicts prepare some littlesurprise. On

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