File:Side-lights on Siberia (1898), page 157, In the cage.jpg
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Identifier: sidelightsonsibe00simp 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 Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Text Appearing After Image: In the case. and upper decks, and between these a thick wire-netting,with hexagonal meshes of about 1^ inch in diameter, wasstretched. In bad weather with driving rain a tarpaulin iscarried round the inside of this wire fence, so that theprisoners can come up on deck for exercise and air with-out being drenched. The breadth of the cage was perhaps 158 ON THE MARCH. 24 feet, which would leave about 3 feet for each of the side-passages already mentioned. The caboose separated the fore-cage from the hinder one, which is almost twice its size.The netting was led round three sides, so that the caboosewas shut out, and food is handed through holes in the caging.The kitchen itself, which might be 16 feet in length, had not,however, a breadth equal to that of the cage: the space thussaved formed the head of the companion that led to thesleeping (quarters below. The hinder cage was some 70 feet in length, and alsohad its staircase down to the Inferno: it was for men, asthe other was for women.
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Source | Image from page 182 of "Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system;" (1898) |
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