Nekrassow A Song of siberian Exiles..........................
"Russian Lyrics"
Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
It stopped some newspapers and warned a number more; it prohibited the Sunday schools and reading clubs altogether; it banished many persons on mere suspicion to remote provinces; and for a greater example it cast the eminent writer Tchernycheffsky into prison on a charge of exciting the peasantry to revolt, and after leaving him there without trial for nearly two years, brought him out at length to a public square in St. Petersburg, read out to him a sentence of transportation, broke a sword over his head, and sent him to the siberian mines for the rest of his life.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
So maybe Pepper had had no thought of hides or timber or tallow when he had learned the siberian method of hunting bear....
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions