The New Siberia Being An Account of a Visit to the Penal Island of Sakhalin An
The New Siberia Being An Account of a Visit to the Penal Island of Sakhalin An
De Windt, Harry, 1856-1933
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ALEXANDRO VSKY-POST. 1 05 I here made the acquaintance of a noted cha- racter, one Sokoloff, a fine-looking old man over eighty-four years of age, who had passed over fifty years of his life in penal servitude, and had escaped no less than eight times from various Russian prisons. Sokoloff had twice been Hogged with the " plet, " a fact he lost no op- portunity of proudly relating to strangers. Some dozen lighters, lying in the little river Alexan- drovna, and a large boiler, with which it is p...roposed to furnish the town with electric light, were also in course of construction, but I think I have already said enough, without mentioning other penal industries, to show that there is, at any rate, no lack of labour at Sakhalin, and that the demoralising influence of enforced idleness is, although unfortunately common enough in Siberia, quite unknown on the island. I should add that the freed workmen are paid by the Government at the rate of so much per day. I was to leave next day for the settlements in the interior of the island, but was glad, before doing so, to accept Madame Taskine's proposi- 106 THE NEW SIBERIA.
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