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SIBERIA
PEASANTS THRESHING GRAIN ON THE ICE.

tinction is now made between politicals and common criminals. Many of the former—but how many I do not know—have been transferred from Kará to the famous and dreaded mine of Akatúi, in the Nérchinsk district, where