Siberia and the exile system . ? /?fftiriivii.^ W^^ 4). RETUKN OF THE MIKACLK-WORKING IK6n. 130 SIBERIA or once in two years, through all the principal villages ofthe Isliini dknif/, or district. Special services in its honorwere held in the village churches, and hundreds of pea!>antsaccompanied it as it was borne with solemn pomp and cere-mony from place to place. It had been on such a tourwhen we saw it, and was on its way back to the church inIshim, where it belonged, and our driver had stated thefact in the simplest and most direct way when he said, The Mother of God is coming home. Rai
Siberia and the exile system . ? /?fftiriivii.^ W^^ 4). RETUKN OF THE MIKACLK-WORKING IK6n. 130 SIBERIA or once in two years, through all the principal villages ofthe Isliini dknif/, or district. Special services in its honorwere held in the village churches, and hundreds of pea!>antsaccompanied it as it was borne with solemn pomp and cere-mony from place to place. It had been on such a tourwhen we saw it, and was on its way back to the church inIshim, where it belonged, and our driver had stated thefact in the simplest and most direct way when he said, The Mother of God is coming home. Rain fell at intervals throughout the day Thursday, butwe pushed on over a muddy steppe road in the direction ofTiukalinsk, changing horses at the post stations of Borof-skaya, Tushnalobova, Abatskaya, and Kamishenka, andstopping for the night at a peasants house in the villageof Orlova. In the sixty hours which had elapsed since ourdeparture from Tinmen we had traveled 280 miles, withonly four hours of sleep, and we were so much exhaustedthat we could n
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