. Siberia and the exile system. ble thing for me to dowas to cultivate science and take a profound interest inthat museum. Fortunately I was a member of the Ameri-can Geographical Society of New York and of the Anthro-pological Society of Washington, and had a sufficientlygeneral smattering of natural science to discuss any branchof it with laymen and the police, even if I could not riseto the level of a professional like Martianof. I thereforenot only visited the museum at my earliest convenience,and took a deep anthropological interest in the KachinskiTatars, but asked Mr. Martianof to allow
. Siberia and the exile system. ble thing for me to dowas to cultivate science and take a profound interest inthat museum. Fortunately I was a member of the Ameri-can Geographical Society of New York and of the Anthro-pological Society of Washington, and had a sufficientlygeneral smattering of natural science to discuss any branchof it with laymen and the police, even if I could not riseto the level of a professional like Martianof. I thereforenot only visited the museum at my earliest convenience,and took a deep anthropological interest in the KachinskiTatars, but asked Mr. Martianof to allow us to take aSoyote plow, a lot of copper knives and axes, and half adozen bronze mirrors to our room, where we could studythem and make drawings of them at our leisure, andwhere, of course, they would be seen by any suspicious of-ficial who happened to call upon us, and would be takenby him as indications of the perfectly innocent and praise-worthy nature of our aims and pursuits. The result of our OUR LAST DAYS IN SIBERIA 403. KACHINSKI TATAR WOMAN AND CHILD. (SKE P. 400.) 404 SIBERIA conspicuous devotion to science was that Mr. Martianofkept our room filled with archaeological relics and ethno-logical specimens of all sorts, and, moreover, brought tocall upon us one evening the accomplished geologist, ar-chaeologist, and political exile, Dmitri Klements. I recog-nized the latter at once as the man to whom I had a round-robin letter of introduction from a whole colony of politicalexiles in another part of Eastern Siberia, and also as theoriginal of one of the biographical sketches in Stepniaks Underground Russia. He was a tall, strongly built manabout forty years of age, with a head and face that wouldattract attention in any popular assembly, but that wouldbe characterized by most observers as Asiatic rather thanEuropean in type. The high, bald, well-developed foreheadwas that of the European scholar and thinker, but the dark-brown eyes, swarthy complexion, prominent cheek-b
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