Identifier: inuttermosteastb00hawe (find matches)
Title: In the uttermost East, being an account of investigations among the natives and Russian convicts of the island of Sakhalin, with notes of travel in Korea, Siberia, and Manchuria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hawes, Charles Henry, 1867-1943
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Publisher: London, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tan hour or so later a short cough, followed by two canoesshooting round the bend of the river, announced the arrivalof four Gilyaks, of whom one was Armunkas brother.They joined our company round the fire, and the brotherof the great hunter proceeded to tell how he had seena bear drinking by the rivers edge, and had wounded himin the side ; but in the darkness it was out of the questionto follow him up, and therefore he would resume the huntin the morning. That night was very cold and frosty. The next daybroke clear and sunny. The proposed bear-tracking wasa great temptation, and, though time was pressing, Iproposed to join our party of four to that of Armunkasbrother. The five Gilyaks, who were bent on purchasinga bear, now left us to pursue their journey. Priming ourguns, we landed at the spot where Bruins foot-marks werestill visible. My interpreter had a Gilyak bear-spear andrevolver, I had a small-bore rifle, and the seven Gilyakshad two spears and three old rifles between them.
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FROM NIVO TO IRR KIRR 295 Clambering up a steep and high bank, grasping tree-stems with which to haul ourselves up, we followed thenatives through the taiga. The forest was thick withelder, ash and mountain-ash, birch, poplar, and larch, anda dense undergrowth of wild-rose, spiraea, and whortle-berries. Great giants of the forest lay fallen at everythree or four steps, and our progress was a crashingthrough scrub, clambering over fallen trunks, and leapinginto mossy dells, many of the latter having been un-mistakably the resting-places of bears. The trees werenaturally tall, as they grew so thickly, and one fallen larch,which I measured by stepping, was noted in my diary as145 feet long. The natives were very quick in following up thetracks. A red stain on a leaf as Bruin brushed by, apatch on the green moss where he had rested, or a markon a tree where, in his pain, he had tried to rub awaythe irritation, every sign was quickly noted. At length,however, even they came to an end of th

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