Note 7 — Chapter XXXVI · THE PENAL COLONY OF KARA.
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The only days at Kara on which men are supposed not to work are three days at Christmas, New Year’s Day, three days before Lent, three days at Easter, and certain imperial birthdays, making in all 15 days in the year, and the first and fifteenth day of each month for the bath. There are other days when, as a matter of fact, for various reasons, they do not work; but I am speaking of the rule.