The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-06-29

Kara receive daily ration consisting or three pounds of black rye bread about four ounces of meat, including the bone . small quantity of bar ley, which Is generally put into the water In which the meat is boiled for the purpose of making soup and little brick teA. Occasionally they have po- tatoes or few leaves of cabbage; but such luxu- ries are bought with money made by extra work, or saved by petty economies In other ways. This ration seemed to me ample In quantity but lacking in variety and very deficient in vegetables. The bread, which tasted, was good As that eaten by Russian peasants generally, but 1t was very moist and sticky and pieces taken from the center of the loaf could be rolled back into dough In ones hands. The meat, which saw weighed out to the convicts after 1t had been boiled and cut up into pieces about large as dice, did not have an inviting ap pearance and suggested to my mind small refuse scraps intended for soap grease. The daily meals of the convicts were arranged follows: Tn the morning, after the roll-call 'verifcation, breakfast, consisting of brick tea and black rye bread, served to the prisoners In their cells. The working parties then set out on foot for the gold plaoers, carrying with them bread and tea for lunch. This mid day meal was eaten in the open air beside a camp fire, regardless of weather and | sometimes In fierce winter storms. Late In the afternoon the convicts returned foot to their cells and ate on their sleeping platforms the frt hearty and nourishing meal of the day, consisting Of hot soup, meat, bread, and perhaps little brick tea. After the evening veri6cation they were locked up for the night and lay down to sleep in closely packed rows on the mares or sleeping | benches, without removing their clothing or mak- ing any other preparation for the night beyond bringing in the pdrdShGs, excrement buckets, spreading down their thin patchwork crazy quilts, and rolling up some Of their spare clothing to put under their heads. The clothing furnished to . hard labor convict at Kara consists-or should by law consist-of one coarse linen shirt and pair of linen trousers every six months; one cap, one pair of thick tr users, and gray overcoat every year; poiushubd (pol- oo- shoo- ba) outer coat of sheepskn every two years; one pair of brodnias (brode- yas, loose leather boots every three and half months in winter and one pair of kdti (kot-tee) or low shoes, every twenty two days in summer. The quality of the food and clothing furnished by the government may be inferred from the fact that the cost of maintaining a hard labor convict at the mines Is about Atty dollars year. little less than fourteen cents day" Apnorisms.
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