. 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 to changenames with Petrovitch, a criminal who had been sentenced to three yearsbanishment, and was to remain near Irkutsk. Ivanoff was to go beyondLake Baikal, whence escape is much more difficult. For one hundredroubles the criminal consented to the change, and to take his chances forthe result. The substitution was inade at the depot in Irkutsk, where the names 326 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. were called off and the new con
. 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 to changenames with Petrovitch, a criminal who had been sentenced to three yearsbanishment, and was to remain near Irkutsk. Ivanoff was to go beyondLake Baikal, whence escape is much more difficult. For one hundredroubles the criminal consented to the change, and to take his chances forthe result. The substitution was inade at the depot in Irkutsk, where the names 326 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. were called off and the new convoys made out. The convoy for the trans-Baikal was first made np, and when Ivanoffs name was read the burglarstepped forward and answered the question as to his sentence. The offi-cers who had accompanied them from Krasnoyarsk were not present, andso there was no great danger of the fraud being discovered; the convoyM^as made up, the new officers moved off, and that Mas the last my friendsaw of his hired substitute. Ivanoff (under his new name of Petrovitch) was sent to live in avillage about twenty miles from Irkutsk, and required to report twice a. ESCAPING EXILES CROSSING A STKEAM. week to the police. He found employment with a peasant farmer, andmanaged to communicate with a friend in Irkutsk, though not withoutmuch difficulty. The peasant used to send him to market with theproduce of the farm, as he found that Ivanoff could obtain betterprices than himself; the fact was he generally sold to his friend, whopurposely overpaid him, and if he did not find his friend he added a littleto the amount out of his own pocket. Ivanoff and his friend haggled GOOD USE OP MONEY. 327 a great deal over tlieir transactions, and thus conversed without arousingsuspicion. Things went on in this way for some months, and the good conductof the apparently reformed criminal won liim the favor of the police-mas-ter to whom he was required to report. His time of reporting was ex-tended to once a wee
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