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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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at the soldiers merely picked off thefugitive when they sighted him so as to save furthertrouble. Se ncn e vero, e ben trovato. Gilyaks, whom weafterwards met, said that Grodiyanka and his fellow-oarsmen had not only indirectly assisted the ex-captainto escape, but had stolen forty military cartridges from theoverseer to give the prisoner. They added that the latterhad built himself a wooden shelter, roofed with grass, andwhen the soldiers came upon him, knowing they wouldprobably shoot him, he rushed out and embraced thenearest soldier, so that it was with difficulty he could gethis gun free and shoot. The natives affirmed that theprisoner was shot in the breast. Four days later we passed the spot where the bodylay and has since been interred, a lonely grave in thesolitude of the primeval forest, one of so many hundredsof lone lost ones of whom few received this last act offellow-man—a friendly covering of earth to protect themfrom the prowling beast or the eagles that hovered high
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A GILYAK TRACKER OF BRODYAGI. (To face page 154. ON THE RIVER TIM 155 over the scene of their death struggle. Outlawed anddegraded, driven to the depths of cold unfeeling cruelty,did they remember in that hour their childhoods days anda mothers tender care ? Now no hand was there to smooththe aching brow or moisten the parched lips of the helplessone lost, alone in the vast forest—none save the taigamatushka herself! The banks of the river were low for the most part,broken by the rise of an occasional limestone cliff of aboutthirty feet in height. Bending over from the tops of these,toppling headlong, halfway down or already lying pronein the water, were larches and birches ; while the stretchesof low bank were thickly dotted with poplars and nut-trees ; and overhanging the rivers edge were willowsand alders, giving hiding-place to a bevy of ducks hereand there. Though we had left behind the last Russian settlementat Ado Tim, three or four rude shelters were passed in thecourse of t

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