. The Siberian exiles. A novel . CHAPTER PRISONERS AT WORK. When we know what caused the exclamations of thetwo prisoners, given at the end of the preceding chap-ter, we shall have no cause for wonder, This is the worst we have seen yet, said Pushkin,^ always excepting those family kameras at Tomsk,Avhich I shall never try to describe to anybody, for thesimple reason that all language would be inadequate. This prison was built a long time ago and wasintended only for temporary use, Dubayeff explained.* But they have gone on using it year after year and•decade after decade, and the only r
. The Siberian exiles. A novel . CHAPTER PRISONERS AT WORK. When we know what caused the exclamations of thetwo prisoners, given at the end of the preceding chap-ter, we shall have no cause for wonder, This is the worst we have seen yet, said Pushkin,^ always excepting those family kameras at Tomsk,Avhich I shall never try to describe to anybody, for thesimple reason that all language would be inadequate. This prison was built a long time ago and wasintended only for temporary use, Dubayeff explained.* But they have gone on using it year after year and•decade after decade, and the only repairs they make arewhen it threatens to tumble down in the winter strengthen the outside, but leave the insideimchanged. Imagine a low building of logs surrounded by astockade, or, rather, having a stockade at one side of it,the building itself forming the other side. The onlyentrance is through a gate in the stockade ; into this^gateway the convicts marched, and in passing they werecarefully counted by the receiving officer, wh
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