Siberia and the exile system . Spencer, Mill, Lewes, Lub-Russian editions. Almost every chap- bock, Huxley, and Lyell, notwithstand-terofLeckysHistory of Rationalism ing the fact that the censor had cut outhad been defaced by the censor, and in ofthemeverythingthatseemedtohimtoa hasty exarainatiou of it I found gaps have a dangerous or demoralizing where from ten to sixty pages had been tendency. I subsequently ascertainedcut out bodily. Even in this mutilated that these volumes, with more than 100form, and in the remote Siberian town others, had been put into the indexof Semipalatinsk, the bo
Siberia and the exile system . Spencer, Mill, Lewes, Lub-Russian editions. Almost every chap- bock, Huxley, and Lyell, notwithstand-terofLeckysHistory of Rationalism ing the fact that the censor had cut outhad been defaced by the censor, and in ofthemeverythingthatseemedtohimtoa hasty exarainatiou of it I found gaps have a dangerous or demoralizing where from ten to sixty pages had been tendency. I subsequently ascertainedcut out bodily. Even in this mutilated that these volumes, with more than 100form, and in the remote Siberian town others, had been put into the indexof Semipalatinsk, the book was such an expurgatorius, and that every publicobject of terror to a cowardly Govern- librarian in the empire had been fer-ment, that it had been quarantined by bidden to issue them to readers. Aorder of the Tsar, and could not be is- complete list of the books thus placedsued to a reader without special permis- under the ban will be found in Appen-sion from the Minister of the Interior, dix B. THE GREAT KIRGHIS STEPPE 101. A. CAMEL TEAM CROSSING THE FORD. 11 102 SIBEKIA From the libiary i ytroJleil eastward aloug the bank ofthe Irtish to the pendulum ferry by which communicationis maintained between Semipalatinsk and a Kirghis suburbon the other side of the river. The ferry-boat starts froma wooded ishuid in mid-stream, which is reached either bycrossing a foot-bridge, or by fording the shallow channelthat separates it from the Semipalatinsk shore. Justahead of me were several Kirghis with three or four double-huuiped camels, one of which was harnessed to a Russiantelega. Upon reaching the ford the Kirghis released thedraught camel from the telega, lashed the empty vehicle,wheels upwards, upon the back of the grunting, groaninganimal, and made him wade with it across the stream. ABactrian camel, with his two loose, drooj^ing humps, hislong neck, and his preposterously conceited and disdainfulexpression of countenance, is always a ridiculous beast, buthe never looks so absu
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