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TWO COLONIES OF POLITICAL EXILES
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in sleepless discomfort until morning. Just before daylight our driver returned with a Cossack from Alexandrófskaya,

COMING UP THE ALEXANDRÓFSKAYA-SÉIVERNAYA RAVINE.

bringing lanterns, ropes, crowbars, and fresh horses, and with these helps and appliances we succeeded in righting the tárantás and dragging it back to the road.