Note 63 — The Eagle as Mecænas.

Mr. Chenapan has made a slight mistake. Nedoìmka is the Russian word for debt; but he is so far right that “recovery of nedoìmki” is the expression officially used for the extortion of taxes from a starving population, and that such extortion is very often accomplished by means of “une espèce de peine corporelle.”—Translator.