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Besides, the residence of families in exile offers some 

 guarantee against any attempt at a return to their native 

 country.' Describing then two old ladies, well dressed 

 in black silk and warm fur cloaks, he says : ' They were 

 treated with great kindness by the soldiers, who lifted 

 them carefully out of the boat, carried them to their 

 sledges which were in waiting, and put them in as tenderly 

 as if they had been their own mothers. After carefully 

 wrapping them up with their furs a Cossack got in beside 

 each of the ladies, and they drove off to Kazan. A girl 

 who was with them was equally well attended to by the 

 officer in command of the part}', who seemed to consider 

 the Polish maiden to be his especial charge.' 



Some additional information relative to the opinions 

 entertained by Polish exiles in Siberia and others 

 in regard to advantages which they enjoy in Siberia 

 is supplied by Mr Michie (pp. 337-342). I believe 

 it to be a fair representation of the case ; and it is in 

 accordance with everything stated by Dr Lansdell in 

 his volume entitled Through Siberia, published in 

 1882, in which he gives details of arrangements of almost 

 every prison in Siberia, to visit which, with a view to 

 supplying the prisoners with copies of the New Testament 

 was the design of his journey. A review of what he says 

 I embodied in a companion volume to this, entitled 

 Forestry in the Ural Mountains in Eastern Russia* 



* Forestry in the Mining Districts of the Ural Mountains in E<istern Russia. In 

 which are given details of a journey from St Petersburg thither, and of forest exploita- 

 tion in the government of Ufa ; an account of the Ural Mountains and the population 

 of metallurgy works creating a demand for forest products j an account of the forests 

 of the district ; of the exploitation of these ; and of abuses connected with this, with 

 a parting glimpse at the life of the people ; and the conquest of Siberia by Russia. 



