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FROM NORTH POLE TO EQUATOR. 



blind can fail to see this gleam of light, only the maliciously dumb 

 refrain from speaking of it. In the prison at Tjumen we visited 

 the prison school, in which a young priest imparted instruction to 



Christian, Jewish, and Tartar children alike, and it was a good face, 

 a veritable head of Christ, that this long-haired and bearded, though 

 still youthful ecclesiastic showed us. To be sure, the Jewish and 

 Tartar boys had to read and repeat the catechism of the Orthodox 



