Now after a railway travel, 5,000 were packed onto river barges that were meant to transport timber and they were shipped up the old river to the island of Nazino. Now for food on this trip, they were given seven ounces of bread as their daily ration. And it wasn't long before the criminal gangs began to run the barges, confiscating bread from the others. To further illustrate the total unpreparedness of this venture, there were two commanders and 50 newly recruited guards who guarded all these people and they didn't even have shoes or uniforms. The settlers arrived at their new home in late May of 1933, a swampy island, two miles long, 660 yards wide, no cooking supplies, no shelters, no ovens. The food they were given was flour, which then they proceeded to mix with river water and consume. And that led many to die from dysentery in the first few days.