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Mohammedans; they and these semi-pagan tribes, including also the
Votyaks and Tchuvashi, their neighbours, are on a very high
moral level, being industrious, sober, and honest.

I could not sleep at all the first night. The smell, the
vermin, and the presence of diseased mushiks were too much
for me; I had frequently to go out on to the platform—the
cars are of the American pattern—on account of nausea.
But the famine had one incidentally good result: there was
a general absence of drunken people; the first I noticed was a
priest.

THE YOUNGER TOLSTOI’S HEADQUARTERS AT PATROVKA.

During the night a prison car, whose small windows were
protected by iron bars, and on each of whose platforms stood
two gendarmes in grey, armed with rifle, revolver, and sword,
was attached to our train. It was filled with convicts bound
for Siberia, including both genuine criminals and those whose
political or religious opinions made them obnoxious in the eyes
of a suspicious Government. I noticed, when I got a glimpse
through the double doors, some comely girl faces among the
crowd of rough and shaggy mushik heads. Even children are

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