. Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system; . acks, and the gymnastic apparatus for thesoldiers exercise. Then came, parallel with these butfarther away, a line of three large wooden were heaped articles of clothing that are now familiarto us. We were shown a small house-shoe with fiat woodensole, which the prisoners detest because the sole will notgive, and often ends by cracking right across. Elsewherethis tendency had been counteracted by making the solein two pieces united by a hinge. The village where the free-comma
. Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system; . acks, and the gymnastic apparatus for thesoldiers exercise. Then came, parallel with these butfarther away, a line of three large wooden were heaped articles of clothing that are now familiarto us. We were shown a small house-shoe with fiat woodensole, which the prisoners detest because the sole will notgive, and often ends by cracking right across. Elsewherethis tendency had been counteracted by making the solein two pieces united by a hinge. The village where the free-commands and some other THE OLD PIT-HEAD. 249 exile settlers live is almost vis-a-vis, nestling in a hollow ofthe hill opposite. On the same side as the prison, but abouta verst farther up the main valley, is a long double line ofmiserable cabins, where the voluntary followers reside. Immediately behind the prison stands one of a smallnumber of childrens homes that have been founded at eachof the more important penal stations. These are supportedby private subscription, and managed by a Petersburg com-. /7iL- sdtlcnuiit oj til. !rv /,//.7;V;.>, (jiinn-/.,T<-i//!i. mittee, of which the Empress is patroness, and MadameNarishkine the moving spirit. As we walked towards it,one could not help noticing what looked like gigantic rabbit-scrapings far up on the hillside. They marked the pit-headof other days. Thirty years ago the interior of the minecollapsed, and since that date it has not been erected in wood and surrounded by a neatlytended garden, the buildings that comprised the home werethe most attractive in the place. In the front of the prin- 250 THE SILVER MINES OF NERTCHINSK. cipal house was a large schoolroom hung with pictures ofthe saints. Towards the ends of the back wall of this apart-ment two doors led out into long narrow halls, the windowsof which faced each other across the intervening space. Oftthe other side of these corridors opened dormitories.
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