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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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coatin winter a short petticoat of seal-skin. In summer theygo bare-footed, except on journeys when, as in winter,they use mocassins of seal-skin, the hair on the outsideof the leg portion only. For underclothing, a ta-pu shirt, shorts, and longgaiters, or spatter-dashes, like the Chinese, are worn bythe men ; and by the women long gaiters only, and ashirt or two of cotton or fish-skin. The outer tunic ofthe Gilyak woman, or rather frock, for it possesses sleeves,has Chinese cash coins strung round the border, whichreaches just below the knees. The Gilyaks are veritable children of the forest, findingtheir home, food, and gods therein. Cultivation of thesoil is unknown to them, and they live mainly on fish andthe flesh of beasts that fall to their snares. By barteringthe skins of such animals they obtain tobacco, brick-tea,etc. They have both summer and winter dwellings, * Salmon (Salmo lagocephalns and S. proteus, which are knownin Eastern Siberia as kita and gorbusha respectively).
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GILYAK WIFE AND MAIDEN. f To face page 158. ON THE RIVER TIM 159 constructed of timber and bark, a full description of whichI will leave until later. Vanka having found his cousin, a man of rather biggerbuild than himself, and informed him of our proposal, theydeclared themselves ready within a few minutes. So naturalis it for these people to be wandering, so much at homeare they on river and in forest, that scarcely any prepara-tion was necessary for this journey of nearly three weeks.It reminded me of a story of a friends experience in thefar west of Canada. He was on a survey party, and inthe forest they came one day upon a solitary Indian, whohad evidently strayed far from his home. They said, Why, you are lost! No, he replied, me no lost,wigwam lost. Their preparations did not include P. and O. overlandtrunks or hat-cases, familiarly labelled Not Wanted, butsimply a seals stomach filled with oil, a scraggy bit ofdried fish, a few leaves of tobacco, an old double-barrelledfowling-

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