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Title: Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
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ty of her own stable. Formerly she had been ad-dicted to wandering in the woods, but her habits were completely changedby her adventure. The Doctor rambled on with his experiences of Kamchatka till itwras time to go to bed. The youths had a good many questions to ask,and were by no means slow to ask them, and before the party broke upthey had accumulated knowledge enough for the production of a news-paper article on this odd corner of the world. They learned that thecountry had an aboriginal population of about six thousand, and less thana thousand Russian inhabitants—the latter being pretty evenly dividedbetween Cossacks and the descendants of exiles. The Doctor explainedthat there were no exiles in the country, as none had been sent there since1830, and all these had been pardoned long ago. Hardly any of theoriginal exiles are living at present, but their children are often men-tioned as exiles, to distinguish them from the Cossack or native population. u THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN.
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MOUNTED COSSACKS. What is a Cossack? Fred inquired, and in what does lie differ fromthe soldier and the peasant ? I will try to explain, the Doctor answered, and perhaps the best wayfor beginning is to compare the Cossack to a militiaman in the UnitedStates. He is sort of half soldier, half peasant; he lives with his family,and is engaged in agricultural or other occupations, but is required to givea certain number of days every year to the service of the government.In some parts of Kussia the Cossack is required to serve on horseback,providing his own horse and equipments, but this is not the case inKamchatka. In war he becomes a soldier, and does excellent service inannoying the enemy; in ordinary times he does any kind of work thegovernment may require. He may be called on to row a boat, drive ateam, build roads, cut forests, tend the governors garden, or possibly takehis children out to walk. To show the authority of the government over the Cossacks I willgive you an illustration:

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