. 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 - in muchthe same way that prisons in other countries are occasionally emptied whenrecruits are wanted. They receive the same pay and treatment as othersoldiers, and are generally sent to distant points, to diminish the chances ofdesertion. Most of these recruits are sent to the regiments in the Caucasusand Central Asia, and a good many are found in the Siberian regiments. All money sent to exiles must pass through the hands of the ofiicial
. 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 - in muchthe same way that prisons in other countries are occasionally emptied whenrecruits are wanted. They receive the same pay and treatment as othersoldiers, and are generally sent to distant points, to diminish the chances ofdesertion. Most of these recruits are sent to the regiments in the Caucasusand Central Asia, and a good many are found in the Siberian regiments. All money sent to exiles must pass through the hands of the is a common complaint, and probably well founded, that a goodly partof this money sticks to the hands that touch it before it reaches its right-ful owner. The same allegation is made concernino- the allowances of EXILES IN IRKUTSK. 321. KXILKS LEAVING MOSCOW. money and flour, just enougli to support life, that are given to exiles wlioare restricted to villages and debarred from remunerative occupation. Did you personally meet many exiles while you were in Siberia?Frank inquired. I saw a great many while I was travelling through the country, Mr,Hegeman answered, and in some instances had conversations with the hotel where I stopped in Irkutsk the clerk was an exile, and so wasthe tailor that made an overcoat for me. Clerks in stores and shops, andfrequently the proprietors, were exiles; the two doctors that had thelargest practice were unfortunates from Poland, and so was the directorof the museum of the Geographical Society of Eastern Siberia. Some ofthe isvoshchiks were exiles. On one occasion an isvoshchik repeated the 21 322 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. conversation which I had with a friend in French, without any suspicion tliathe understood what we were saying. Hardly a day passed tiiat I di
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