. 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 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
. 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 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 week, and later to once a month. This gave him thechance of escaping. By a judicious use of his money he secured the silence of his em-ployer and obtained a paderojnia of the second class. The day after re-. IVANOFF S CAVE. porting to the police he went to fish in the Angara, the river that flowspast Irkutsk and has a very swift current. As soon as he was missed hisemployer led the search in the direction of the river. The coat, basket,and fishing-rod of the unfortunate man lay on the bank; it was easy tosee that he had been standing on a stone at the edge of the water, and the 328 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. stone having given way the river had swallowed Ivanoff, and carried liisbody away towards the Arctic Ocean. Some money was in the pocket ofthe coat, and was appropriated by the officers. But instead of being drowned, Ivanoff was safely concealed in a caveimder a large rock in the forest. lie had found it on one of his huntingexcursions, and had previously conveyed to it a quantity of provisions, to-gether with some c
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