The fortress at Kiow--Prince Bibikov--Examination--A Commission of Inquiry--A Bible--Fellow-prisoners--The maniac--Preparations for ‘Deportation’--The Sentence CHAPTER IV. OF DEPORTATION, AND THE LIFE OF AN EXILE IN SIBERIA. 60-81 The _knout_ and the _plète_--Running the gauntlet--Gangs of exiles--Grand-Duchess Marie--The journey--Russian alms--A ‘pope’--The Russian soldier--Omsk--Prince Gortchakov--Ekaterinski-Zavod CHAPTER V. THE KATORGA. 82-102 Companions in exile--The katorga--A murderer--The felons--Kantier--Pay and punishments--The counting-house CHAPTER VI. SIBERIA. 103-114 Siberia--Hardships of deportation--Breaking the ban--The Abbé Sierocinski--His conspiracy and execution CHAPTER VII. THE FLIGHT. 115-152 An attempt--My route--My funds--My dress--A sledge--A Russian theft--The journey--Irbite--On foot--A night’s lodging--Danger--Cold and famine--Paouda--The _izbouchka_--The crest of the Ourals--Lost in the forest--Sleep--Alms--Véliki-Oustiong CHAPTER VIII. THE PILGRIM AND THE PILGRIMAGE. 153-169 Pilgrimages--The Bohomolets--Manners and customs in Véliki-Oustiong --On the Dvina--Archangel--The devotions of the pilgrims--Difficulties --Hope deferred CHAPTER IX. THE WHITE SEA. 170-194 The monastery of Solovetsk--The prisoner of Solovetsk--Heterodoxy and orthodoxy--The promontory--A farther journey--Onega--St. Petersburg CHAPTER X. THE RETURN TO PARIS. 195-208 The moujik’s passage--Lithuania--The Prussian frontier--Königsberg --Arrest and captivity--M. Kamke--Bail--Flight--Arrival in Paris--The end POLAND A CENTURY AFTER ITS DIVISION: 211-263 AND THE LATE AGITATION IN WARSAW. A century--1772--Battle of Macejowice and Kosciusko--Treaty of 1815--Opinion of M. de Talleyrand--Cracow--Treaty of Vienna, Article 6--Policy of Alexander--Policy of Prussia--Policy of the Emperor of Austria--Nicholas the Tzar--Violent assimilation of Poland with Russia--Posen--Cracow--The last thirty years--Massacre in Galicia--1848--Crimean war--The Polish question--Efforts for internal reform--Temperance league--The Agricultural Society--Count Andrew Zamoyski--Krasinski--‘Aurora’--Amnesty of Alexander II.--Conference at Warsaw--Position of Russia A YEAR OF AGITATION IN POLAND. 267-321