Note 8 — Section 167. RUSSIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS IN BANISHMENT. III.
Reading edition
that — escape. This passage requires an altogether different construction in German; say ‘they (man) would upon (bei) an attempt, to go beyond (überschreiten, insep. comp. str. v. tr.) the limits of the town, not allow him to escape, but rather (vielmehr) shoot him down like a dog’ (liter.—but him rather like a dog shoot down, nie´derschießen)’.