. 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 s their priests (generally exiles liketheir co-religionists) to travel from place to place in the performance oftheir religious duties; and as long as they do not join in any politicalplots, or make other trouble for the authorities, they are allowed the great-est freedom. Among the peasant inhabitants of Siberia a Catholic churchis called Polish, while a Lutheran one is known as German. The Moslem and Pagan inhabitants of Asiatic Russia ha
. 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 s their priests (generally exiles liketheir co-religionists) to travel from place to place in the performance oftheir religious duties; and as long as they do not join in any politicalplots, or make other trouble for the authorities, they are allowed the great-est freedom. Among the peasant inhabitants of Siberia a Catholic churchis called Polish, while a Lutheran one is known as German. The Moslem and Pagan inhabitants of Asiatic Russia have the most 11 162 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. comiDlete religious freedom; but sometimes, in their zeal to be on goodterms with their rulers, they adopt the new religion without laying asidethe old. I have heard of the chief of a tribe of Yakouts, a savage andidolatrous people in ISTorthern Siberia, who joined the Russian Cliurchand was baptized. He attended faithfully to all its observances, and atthe same time did not neglect anything pertaining to his old about to make a journey, or to undertake any other enterprise, he. A COLLEGE DORMITORY. offered prayers in the church, and then summoned the shaman, or Paganpriest of his tribe, to perform incantations and bribe the evil spirits notto molest him. On being questioned as to his action, he said he was notcertain which belief was the right one, and he wanted to make sure byprofessing both. One of the youths asked the Doctor about the treatment of the Jewsin Russia. He had read that they were greatly oppressed in some partsof the Empire, and that many of them had been killed for no other reasonthan that they were Jews. That is quite true, the Doctor answered; but the outrages werethe work of excited mobs, rather than acts authorized by the Govern-ment. There is much fanaticism among the lower orders of Russians,and they were roused to what they did by stories which the priests had ISRAELITES AND THEIR
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