Side-Lights On Siberia; Some Account of the Great Siberian Railroad, the Prisons And Exile System;
Side-Lights On Siberia; Some Account of the Great Siberian Railroad, the Prisons And Exile System;
James Young Simpson
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The hrodyaga, it may be, turns westward in the hope of regaining the land of his birth, and retraces liis steps along the great highway, from which he can easily slink into the forest on either side should he wish to avoid his feUowmen. At night, in spite of the dogs baying at his heels, he may steal into a village to beg for a morsel of bread, or remove the scrap of meat left by some tender-hearted cottager upon the outside window-sill.^ Examine some of the gates set up where the post-road is ...intersected by the fence round the pasture-land of a village. You will notice mysterious signs rudely graven upon it. One evening a starving brod- yoga scoured the village in vain search of food, and while ^ From this circumstance originates the Siberian name for vagrants as a whole — " General Kukushka's army." ' A heavy penalty is attached to the crime of housing a brodyaga. Digitized by LjOOQ IC BRODVAGA BRANDED B. Digitized by LjOOQ IC THE NEW YORK FlI3;iC LIBRARY A«TO«, LfNOX AND TIUDRPi FQUNOAT!On>, Digitized by LjOOQ IC THE vagrant's END.
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