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Identifier: siberiaexilesyst01kenn (find matches)
Title: Siberia and the exile system
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Kennan, George, 1845-1924
Subjects: Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia) -- Exiles
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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willing tosell his name, he takes the colonists place and is assigneda residence in some village, while the colonist takes theconvicts place and goes to the mines. Hundreds of hard-labor convicts escape in this way.^ Hassan Abdallimof ! called the examining officer. Noone moved. Hassan Abdallimof! shouted the Cossack orderly,more loudly. Go on. Stumpy; thats you ! said half a dozen exilesin an undertone as they pushed out of the throng a short,thickly set, bow-legged Tatar, upon whose flat, swarthyface there was an expression of uncertainty and bewilder-ment. He does nt know Russian, your High Nobility, saidone of the exiles respectfully, and he is glupovati (dull-witted). 11 shall explain this practice of exchanging names more fully in a later chapter. 292 SIBERIA Bring him here, said the officer to the Cossack orderly. When Hassan had been examined, he did not shoulderhis bag and go to his place as he should have done, but be-gan to bow and gesticulate, and to make supplications in
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the Tatar language, becoming more and more excited ashe talked. What does he say f inquired the officer. Find somesoldier who knows Tatar. An interpreter was soon foundand Hassan repeated his story. THE PROVINCE AND THE CITY OF TOMSK 293 He says, your High Nobility, translated the inter-preter, that when he was arrested they took eight rublesfrom him and told him the money would be given back tohim in Siberia. He wants to know if he cannot have someof it now to buy tea. Nyettoo chai! (No tea!) said the Tatar mournfully,with a gesture of utter desolation. To the devil with him! cried the officer furiously. What does the blank blank mean by delaying the recep-tion of the party with such a trifle ? This is no place totalk about tea! He 11 receive his money when he gets tohis destination. Away with him ! And the poor Tatarwas hustled into the eastern end of the shed. Ivan Dontremember —the red-headed, shouted theexamining officer. That s a hrodydg (a vagrant or tramp), whisperedColonel

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