CHAPTER XXI.

KAZAN.--POLISH EXILES.

Road to Kazan--Polish prisoners--Arrive at Kazan--More croaking--Temptations to delay--Sell our sledge--View of Kazan--The ferry at the Volga--Ice-boats and icebergs--The military--Tatars--Polish exiles--Kindly treated by their escort--Erroneous ideas on this subject--The distribution of exiles in Siberia--Their life there--The Polish insurrection--Its objects--Imprudence--Consequences--Success would have been a second failure 331