FORESTS OF ARCHANGEL, 53 
It is the joke of a Russian jarvey, that he will “ drive you 
out of your senses for ten kopecs.” From dawn to sunset, 
day by day, it is one long race through bogs and pines. 
The landscape shows no dykes, no hedges, and no gates ; 
no signs that tell of a person owning the land. We 
whisk by a log fire and a group of tramps, who flash upon 
us with a sullen greeting, some of them starting to their 
feet. ‘“ What are those fellows, Dimitri?’ “They seem 
to be some of the Runaways.” “Runaways! Who are the 
Runaways? What are they running away from?” “Queer 
fellows, who don’t like work, who won't obey orders, who 
never rest in one place. You find them about here in the 
woods everywhere. They are savages. In Kargopol you 
can learn about them.” 
‘At the town of Kargopol, on the river Onega, in the 
province of Olonetz, I hear something of these Runaways, 
as of a troublesome and dangerous set of men, bad in 
themselves, and still worse as a sign. I hear of them 
afterwards in Novogorod the Great, and in Kazan. The 
community is widely spread. Tinvashef is aware that 
these unsocial bodies exist in the provinces of Yaroslav, 
Archangel, Vologda, Novogorod, Kostroma, and Peren,’ 
At Kargopol he got the information for which he asked, 
but this concerns us not here. At present we have to do 
with his journey and with what he saw. . 
‘ Village after village passes to the rear. Russ hamlets. 
are so closely modelled on a common type that when you’ 
have seen one, you have seen a host; when you have seen 
two you have seen the whole. Your sample may be either 
large or small, either log-built or mud-built, either hidden 
in forest or exposed on steppe; yet in the thousands on 
thousands to come you will observe no change in the pre- 
vailing form. There is a Great Russ hamlet, and a Little 
Russ hamlet; one with its centre in Moscow, as the capi- 
tal of Velika Rouss [Great Russia], the second with its 
centre in Kief, the capital of Malo Rouss [Little Russia.] _ 
‘A Great Russ village consists of two lines of cabins 
parted from each, other by a wide and dirty lane. Each 
