Siberia and the exile system . A STREET IN SEMIPALATINSK. Affairs, and was gratified to find that he had apparentlyreceived no private instructions with regard to us and knewnothing whatever about us. He welcomed me courteously, IGO SIBEllIA granted me permission to inspect the Semipalatinsk prison,said lie wonld send tlie chief of the police to take us tothe mosques and show us about the city, and promisedto have prepared for us an open letter of introductionto all the subordinate othcials in the Semipalatinskterritory. From the house of the governor I went, upon his recom-mendation, to the p
Siberia and the exile system . A STREET IN SEMIPALATINSK. Affairs, and was gratified to find that he had apparentlyreceived no private instructions with regard to us and knewnothing whatever about us. He welcomed me courteously, IGO SIBEllIA granted me permission to inspect the Semipalatinsk prison,said lie wonld send tlie chief of the police to take us tothe mosques and show us about the city, and promisedto have prepared for us an open letter of introductionto all the subordinate othcials in the Semipalatinskterritory. From the house of the governor I went, upon his recom-mendation, to the public library, an unpretending log-housein the middle of the town, where I found a small anthropo-logical museum, a comfortable little reading-room suppliedwith all the Russian newspapers and magazines, and a well-chosen collection of about one thousand books, among whichI was somewhat surprised to find the works of Spencer,Buckle, Lewes, Mill, Taine, Lubbock, Tylor, Huxley, Dar-win, Lyell, Tyndall, Alfred Eussell Wallace, Mac
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