e prison is done."

Accordingly the next morning Godfrey was taken into the court-yard,
where some fifty other prisoners were assembled, and ten minutes later
marched off under a guard of eight mounted Cossacks. He carried his
peasant's clothes and fur coat rolled up into a bundle on his shoulder,
and had, after he changed his dress, sewn up his money in the collar of
his jacket with a needle and thread he had brought with him, keeping out
some twenty roubles for present purposes. The journey occupied five
days, the marches averaging twenty-five miles apiece. The prisoners
talked and sung by the way, picked the blackberries and raspberries that
grew thickly on the bushes by the wayside, and at night slept in the
stations, their food consisting of very fair broth, with cabbage in it,
meat, and black bread. Godfrey was asked no questions. He did not know
whether this was because the convicts thought only of themselves, and
had no curiosity about their companions, or whether it was a sort of
etiquette observed among them. Godfrey was surprised to find how much
the country differed from the ideas he had formed of Siberia.

The forests were beautiful with a great variety of foliage. Late lilies
bloomed by the roadside with flowers of other kinds, of whose names he
was ignorant. To the north was a chain of hills of considerable height.
The forest was alive with birds, and he frequently caught sight of
squirrels running about among the branches. No objection was offered by
the guards to their making purchases at the villages through which they
passed, except that they would not allow them to buy spirits. At the
first opportunity Godfrey laid out four or five roubles in tea and
tobacco, some of which he presented to the guards, and divided the rest
among his fellow-prisoners, who forthwith dubbed him "the count." At
length Kara was reached. It was not a town, but purely a convict
settlement, the prisoners being divided among four or five prisons
situated two or three miles from each other. They were first marched to
the most central of these. Here they were inspected by the governor, who
had the details of each case reported by the authorities of the prisons
they had left. They were at once divided into parties in accordance with
the vacancies in the various prisons.

Only four were left behind. These were taken to a guardroom until
allotted to the various wards. One by one they were taken out, Godfrey
being the last to be su