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per cent. of Samara; and six per cent. of other governments in 
Russia or of other countries. The distribution of the immigrants 
between these two provinces is further shown in the following: 
Taste I. DistripuTIoN oF RussIAN GERMANS BY PROVINCES AND BY 
CoLoNIES 
Number of Colonies Furnishing Immigrants Number of Immigrants 
Saratow Samara Each 
5 I 200-600 
2 100-200 
4 2 50-100 
6 2 25-50 
20 38 I-25 
The Germans in Samara engage entirely in agriculture, while 
those in Saratow devote themselves partly to manufactures; but 
this variation is not reflected in the settlement in Lincoln, as nore 
of its inhabitants follow the occupations which they carried on 
in their former homes. But these groupings manifest them- 
selves in various ways in the social and religious life of the 
people, as we shall see in detail later. Aside from peculiarities 
in dialect and customs, and numerous differences in folklore, 
they are the basis of local pride and prejudice which break out in 
petty quarrels often carried into the courts, and in “wedding 
riots”’ which sometimes occur during the season of these 
festivities. 
In addition to the immigrants who come direct from the Ger- 
man colonies of the Volga, many coming from other parts of the 
Empire are traceable originally to that region. A few of these 
are natives of near-by Russian villages where their parents had 
gone for work, while others were born on neighboring estates 
where the father was employed as foreman of a mill or in some 
similar capacity. A larger number come from the cities of the 
government Saratow—some from Zaritzyn, but most from the 
city of Saratow where they have been engaged in various manu- 
facturing pursuits. . 
Outside the Volga provinces, the Caucasus furnishes the largest 
number. They come from the German colonies near Tiflis, 
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