. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across CUSTOM-HOUSE FORMALITIES. 42 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN a passport under a fictitious name, and secure the necessary approval ofconsuls or ambassadors. Ivan Carlovitcli, for whom the police are on thewatch, comes here with a passport in the name of Joseph Cassini, a nativeof Malta, and subject of Great Britain. His English passport is obtainedeasily enough by a little false swearing; it is approved by the Eussianminister at
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across CUSTOM-HOUSE FORMALITIES. 42 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN a passport under a fictitious name, and secure the necessary approval ofconsuls or ambassadors. Ivan Carlovitcli, for whom the police are on thewatch, comes here with a passport in the name of Joseph Cassini, a nativeof Malta, and subject of Great Britain. His English passport is obtainedeasily enough by a little false swearing; it is approved by the Eussianminister at Vienna, and the fellow enters Russia with perfect ease. Thehonest traveller who has neglected the formality through ignorance is de-tained, while the Kevolutionist goes onhis way contented. The Eevolutionistalways knows the technicalities of thelaw, and is careful to observe them ; andit is safe to say that the passport systemnever prevented any political offenderfrom getting into Eussia when hewanted to go there. I have been in Eussia before, he-continued, and know what I am say-ing. The first time I went there wasfrom Berlin, and on reaching the fron-tier I was stopped because my passportwas not properly indorsed. I s
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