. Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system; . AMONG THE VOLUNTARY FOLLOWERS. 251 After this we visited the strange settlement of those whohad followed in the prisoners wake—wives, children, loversmore rarely, husbands. The dwellings were primitive to thelast degree, being largely composed of wicker-work. Whenan occupant no longer needs the scanty shelter offered bysuch a home because she can join her liberated mate in the. The best cabin. free-command, she attempts to sell it to some rubles is a common price in such
. Side-lights on Siberia; some account of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and exile system; . AMONG THE VOLUNTARY FOLLOWERS. 251 After this we visited the strange settlement of those whohad followed in the prisoners wake—wives, children, loversmore rarely, husbands. The dwellings were primitive to thelast degree, being largely composed of wicker-work. Whenan occupant no longer needs the scanty shelter offered bysuch a home because she can join her liberated mate in the. The best cabin. free-command, she attempts to sell it to some rubles is a common price in such a majority of the cabins were slightly sunk, so that onestepped down in entering. From the outside the walls ap-peared to be made of birch branches carefully intertwined,with an occasional strengthening plank, the whole beingtilled in and daubed over with earth. Tlie square roof was 252 THE SILVER MINES OF NERTCHINSK. likewise covered with soil, so that it supported a thick growthof grasses and wild-flowers. The interior was divided intotwo unequal compartments. From the inside the wall ofthe larger room was seen to be as described, but the otherchamber, which opened off it, contained the whitewashedbrick stove, and was accordingly more stoutly bolstered upwith boards internally, and in some cases was built entirelyof brick. One had almost to get down on ones knees toenter this warm winter den. Even now difficulties did notend, for inside there was hardly
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