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
Subjects:
Publisher: London, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
their turn obtained them from the Japaneseor Manchus, I do not know. They were tiny erections oflight drill, not more than three or four feet high andshaped like a square marquee. A long stake was thrustobliquely into the ground, and from this hung the tent, asif it were a diving bell, the corners being tied to a bear-spear, paddle, etc. How two or three people slept in thiswithout getting asphyxiated, I cannot explain. I and my companion were secure from such a fate, asour construction hardly merited even the name of ashelter, and that night a hail-storm, followed by a keenwind from the Okhotsk Sea, swept into it. The discomfortof getting up at 6 a.m. to face a cold biting wind, with nomore clothes to put on, is something the ordinary dwellerin civilized places cannot readily realize, but an experienceeven more unpleasant followed in sitting with limbs stiffand dead for six long hours at the bottom of a canoe,facing the wind and longing for gleams of sunshine to thaweven ones hands.
Text Appearing After Image:
VASILIVj 1 HE CANNIBAL. ( To face page 286. FROM NIVO TO IRR KIRR 287 That night snow fell; winter with his brusque mannersin these parts had suddenly arrived to stay, at least on this,the east, side of the island. The mountains had put on theirwhite caps, and would refuse to doff them until July ofthe following year. The next morning opened, however,quite still though cold. Our larder was in a poor stateagain, our tinned food was exhausted, and we had onlyscraped along by the aid of a duck shot the day before andthe brick-like remains of a loaf of black bread given us bythe prospectors. Now, as Vanka put it, the wild duckshad driven away south. The autumn migration of birds takes place rather lateron Sakhalin than it does on the mainland. Travellers, likePrjevalsky, and observers, such as Mr. Seebohm and Mr.Harvie-Brown, have left us records of the passage of birdsin spring and autumn to and from Siberia over the Mongo-lian sandy wastes. The feathered inhabitants who spendtheir summe

Note About Images