CHAPTER IV.

_THE EXILES._

Reasons for and history of deportation to Siberia.--Number of exiles.--Their education.--Crimes.--Sentences.--Loss of rights.--Privileges.--Proportion of hard-labour convicts.--Where located.--Release.--Escapes.--Causes and methods of flight.--Transport.--A convoy of exiles.--Moscow charity.--Conveyance to Perm and Tiumen.--Their distribution.--Order of march.--Sea-borne exiles.--Mistakes of English newspapers.--Conveyance of political exiles 31