Note 4 — Section 166. RUSSIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS IN BANISHMENT. II.
Reading edition
[1] Aufenthaltsort, m.; a — spent = spends (verbringen) the prisoner eight or ten days.
[2] = whereupon.
[3] to mark out, bezeichnen; for this = to this (Dat.); personage = character; some final = his definite (definitiv). The Dat. should be placed immediately after ‘Arkangel’.
[4] = a.
[5] Kreisstadt, f.; such as = as for example.
[6] Construe this passage accord. to the following model: I am told the documents are destroyed, Es (S. 104, N. 19) wird mir mitgeteilt, daß die Papiere vernichtet sind.
[7] mit dem Bemerken, daß, etc.
[8] ‘to start,’ of a conveyance, a train, etc., is generally rendered by ab´fahren.
[9] = at, an.
[10] for years, jahrelang.
[11] Use the pl. for this and the two following nouns.
[12] auf. Read S. 128, N. 11.
[13] the — convoy = the exhausted travellers.
[14] black = gloomy.
[15] Viehstand, m.
[16] abgemagert.
[17] siech.
[18] Supply ‘souls’.
[19] This term may be used in its unaltered form, but is perhaps better rendered by ‘Polizeipräsident’, m.
[20] Unterbeamte, m.
[21] Friedensrichter.
[22] Nom. der kaiserliche Forstbeamte.
[23] einem Haufen russischer Verbrecher in Ketten.
[24] = number.
[25] = examined; who — district = with absolute (unumschränkt) power (Vollmacht, f.) over the whole district.
[26] begehren; to answer = the answer, die Beantwortung, followed by the Gen., but without art.
[27] = your.
[28] Say ‘of your parents’.
[29] Say ‘and the answers to (auf, with Acc.) these questions are all entered (ein´tragen) in the books’.