Siberia and the exile system . es, and whether they could, by extra work,earn a little money, so as not to leave prison replied that in most American penitentiaries they could. It is not so, he said, with us. Naked we go to themines, and naked we come out of them; and we are flogged,while there, at the whim of every nariddchik.^ Oh, no! said Captain Gudim good-naturedly, theydont flog at the mines now. Yes, they do, your Nobility, replied the hrodydg firmlybut respectfully. If you are sick or weak, and cantfinish your stent, you are given twenty blows with thecat. I should have bee
Siberia and the exile system . es, and whether they could, by extra work,earn a little money, so as not to leave prison replied that in most American penitentiaries they could. It is not so, he said, with us. Naked we go to themines, and naked we come out of them; and we are flogged,while there, at the whim of every nariddchik.^ Oh, no! said Captain Gudim good-naturedly, theydont flog at the mines now. Yes, they do, your Nobility, replied the hrodydg firmlybut respectfully. If you are sick or weak, and cantfinish your stent, you are given twenty blows with thecat. I should have been glad to get further information fromthe hrodydg with regard to his life at the mines, but just atthis moment Captain Gudim asked me if I would not liketo see the loading of the sick and infirm, and the conver-sation was interrupted. 1 V Dali (Afar), by M. I. OrMnof, p. 226. St. Petersburg, 1883. 2 A petty officer who directs the work of the convicts in the razreis or cutting,and who sets their tasks. DEPOETATION BY ETAPE 375. SICK AND INFIKM EXILES IN TELISGAS. 37G SIBEllIA The tcUgas intended for prisoners physically unable towalk were small one-horse carts, without springs of anykind, and with only one seat, in front, for the driver andthe guard. They looked to me like the halves of longi-tudinally bisected hogsheads mounted upon four lowwheels, with their concave sides uppermost. More wretch-edly uncomfortable vehicles to ride in were never smaU quantity of green grass had been put into each oneto break the jolting a little, and upon this grass, in everycart, were to sit four sick or disabled convicts. All prisoners who have certificates from the doctor,step out! shouted Captain G-udim, and twenty-five orthirty incapables — some old and infirm, some pale andemaciated from sickness — separated themselves from themain body of convicts in the road. An under-officer col-lected and examined their certificates, and as fast as theircases were approved they climbed i
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