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are sometimes taken from them, and it is useless going
to law over the matter—the exile will never obtain justice.
He is “only a varnak!”
This state of things together with the nameless misery
existing in the transport-prisons has contributed to swell
the stream of runaway prisoners. These “unhappy ones,”
as they are called, will rather risk being shot in a dash
for liberty than stay under insupportable conditions.
Deprived as they often are during the greater part of their lives
of every decent human influence, these “brodyagi” finally
lose all trace of human feelings, and are capable not only
of killing their fellow-man in cold blood in order to rob
him, but also, as sometimes happens, of killing and eating
one another! Such are the fruits produced by the exile
system on the exiles themselves!
It is but natural that the moral infection should spread
to the population at large, who, alike from motives of
self-defence or hatred, will hunt and kill the “brodyagi” just
as they would a wild beast.
The large number of crimes which occur in Siberia has
already been pointed out in an earlier portion of this volume.
A few more facts may not unfittingly be added in this
connection. From the official statistics it appears that in
many places more than half the number of crimes are
committed by exiles, though their number is only about
6 per cent of the entire population. From the local
criminal statistics it further appears that in Siberia the number
of crimes is far greater than those occurring in all other
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