Identifier: inuttermosteastb00hawe (find matches)
Title: In the uttermost East, being an account of investigations among the natives and Russian convicts of the island of Sakhalin, with notes of travel in Korea, Siberia, and Manchuria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hawes, Charles Henry, 1867-1943
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Publisher: London, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ngly apply for rations of this description, or run therisk of treatment such as I have described ; and the Chiefwas quite satisfied with an abstention which was profitableto his pocket. One of these exiles, whom I met on the island, was acultured lady who had gone through a most terrible ex-perience. Her name is well known throughout Siberia,and in Russia too; but I will call her Mrs. A. She hadbelonged to a secret society unknown to her husband, andon the violent death of Alexander II., in 1881, it wasnecessary for her to flee the country. Years passed, and,altering her appearance, she returned to Russia, trustingthat matters had quieted down. The police, however,arrested her on suspicion, and casting about for somemeans of proving her identity, they hit upon a brilliantand most cruel test. They summoned her husband, whowas unaware of her return, and suddenly caused him to beconfronted by her. The ruse was as successful as cruel,and the recognition instantaneous and spontaneous. From
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political exiles, rikovsk. LTofacefage 344. SCENES AND PERSONS IN ALEXANDROVSK 345 that time the wife disappeared from the knowledge of theworld. Immured in the dungeons of the Schliisselbergyears went by, and absolute silence brooded over her fate.This famous fortress, situated on a small island in LakeLadoga, near the issue of the river Neva, is the State prisonfor dangerous political offenders. In those days a prisonerwithin these frowning walls was seldom heard of again,and Mr. A., at length believing her to be dead, marriedagain. Ten years and more had gone by when he wassuddenly startled by the news that his first wife was stillalive, and had been transported to Sakhalin. Matterswere explained to his second wife, they agreed to part,and he immediately set out for Sakhalin, vid England andAmerica, arriving on the island a few months before myself,where I met them both. I spent several evenings withthem, and it was a marvel to me how any one pent upin those terrible dungeons for t

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