Note 4 — Chapter XXXVII · THE CONVICT MINES OF KARA.
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After leaving Kara I heard that the number of political prisoners to be transported there was considerably augmented; but I have it on good authority that even then the number expected did not exceed 60. The most recent information I have received, since the Emperor’s assassination, goes on to say that as Nertchinsk was made the special place of deportation for the Poles after 1863, so Kara has been made the special place for Nihilists; but I have no official information to that effect.