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Show A .Journey I.atln yearly Two ler. Ill Surotov an interesting traveler on foot arrived recently. Ho was a peasant; Nikolay Andukin by name, and over 70 years of age. ' Ho had been a serf, and in 1852 his master had accused him of theft, and had caused him to be exiled to Okhotsk, in Eastern Siberia. As the crime of which he had been accused could not bo established he was sent off a a "free exile'' that is, he was not kept a prisoner or bound to penal service in the place of his detonation. For thirty-eight thirty-eight years he worked in Okhotsk as a tanner, and saved money,. Having attained at-tained his seventieth year be conceived a desire to return to his native bind, and, nr. he said, "to put away his little bones among his own people whn his tinin is up in this world." But he was still halo and hearty, and traveled all the way from Okhotsk on foot. He was on the road, twenty-two months, and had many a narrow escape from encounters with bears and wolves. At his old home ho hrrn a large family of children and grandchildren grand-children awaiting him with open arms. tit. Petersburg Letter. |