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TWO COLONIES OF POLITICAL EXILES
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a young lawyer from the province of Kóvno, and Mr. Vítort, a technologist from Ríga.
Mr. Karélin had been accompanied to Siberia by his wife, but the others were, I believe, unmarried. I had
THE ULBÍNSK RAVINE.
learned the names, and something of the histories, of these exiles from the politicals in Semipálatinsk, and there were several reasons why I particularly wished to see them and to make their acquaintance. I had an idea that perhaps the politicals in Semipalátinsk were above the average level of administrative exiles in intelligence and education
