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AN REST OF KTOURTS.
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and handed them over to the care of the police. Going-
after this into an adjoining house, I found another of
these ruffians hiding in a corner. I thus managed to
secure six of the fifteen men who were concerned in
the affair, and I was afterwards told that if the man so
cruelly treated had died during the night, the remainder of
the Kiourt men had planned the rescue of the prisoners.
Fortunately he survived, and a short imprisonment was
■.a i'ottery.
the only punishment inflicted on the men captured ; but
I insisted upon their being afterwards sent away from
Ayasalouk, and I discharged nearly all the Kiourts
who were then in my employment. 1 hus ended an
affair which might have been a very serious one for
myself or my people. As it was, it did good, as my
men saw that I would not allow them to be maltreated
with impunity to their tormentors.
Amongst oilier annoyances at Ayasalouk, the village
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and handed them over to the care of the police. Going-
after this into an adjoining house, I found another of
these ruffians hiding in a corner. I thus managed to
secure six of the fifteen men who were concerned in
the affair, and I was afterwards told that if the man so
cruelly treated had died during the night, the remainder of
the Kiourt men had planned the rescue of the prisoners.
Fortunately he survived, and a short imprisonment was
■.a i'ottery.
the only punishment inflicted on the men captured ; but
I insisted upon their being afterwards sent away from
Ayasalouk, and I discharged nearly all the Kiourts
who were then in my employment. 1 hus ended an
affair which might have been a very serious one for
myself or my people. As it was, it did good, as my
men saw that I would not allow them to be maltreated
with impunity to their tormentors.
Amongst oilier annoyances at Ayasalouk, the village