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atrocious deeds occurred as the horrible massacre of the
political exiles in the city of Yakutsk.
Under the rule of the present governor some efforts have
been made officially to direct the attention of the
government to the evil effects on the province of the exile system.
Since the opening of part of the Trans-Siberian railway
the number of exiles to Yakutsk as well as to other distant
parts of Siberia has, however, still increased, because of
the necessity of sending them away from the regions
near the railway. The Duchobortsi, i.e., the Quakers of
Russia, and the followers of Count Tolstoy, are being exiled
north-east of Yakutsk to the forest regions on the Aldan
river, where they suffer fearfully from privations and the
severity of the climate.
In spite of the numerous police and the soldiery, the
security to life and property in Yakutsk is small, and the
common level of morality is, to say the least of it, not
very high. The corruption, moreover, is spreading from
the town far and wide among the natives. The merchants
leaving Yakutsk in the fall for the distant parts of the
north—the mouth of the Lena, Verkhoyansk, Kolymsk,
etc.—to exchange their goods for the valuable furs of the
natives, buy the healthiest and best-looking girls from the
natives for an even smaller sum than the cost of a reindeer,
and take with them a small harem on their long journeys.
In the city of Yakutsk these girls are left to their fate and
finally perish, or return to their people, spreading physical
and moral contamination among them.
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