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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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heard of them since, upto the time of writing. The two horses were found in theStraits, one frozen to death, and the other nearly so ; butno trace of their masters at all. It seemed most likelythat they had been drowned, but how they had met thisfate, and the horses escaped, was a mystery. Possibly,overtaken by darkness, they ventured on foot to find away, and were engulfed in a hole or in the open sea tothe south. Such are the dangers and difficulties of the journey ofthe mails, and of any venturous passenger during midwinterfrom Sakhalin to the mainland. We can picture the excitement of the first arrival, afterthe many weeks absence of news, as the team of dogsdashes up the hill to the post-office. Outside stands a sign-post, as if to remind the inhabitants of their exile andhopeless separation from civilization, with the inscription,St. Petersburg, 10,186 versts (6752 miles). Another interval of six weeks or two months isolationfollows midwinter communication, during which no ship
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THE ISLAND OF SAKHALIN in can plough the ice-laden strait nor sledge venture acrossthe treacherous ice. Although it is common knowledge that the farther eastof Paris one goes, the more extreme is the climate, a factwhich Napoleon did not seem to have realized in 1812,yet we should scarcely expect such extremes of climate asa range of 1490 Fahr. on an island in the same latitude.There appear to be two main causes. The first is the pre-valence of northerly and north-westerly winds in winter, andof southerly and south-easterly in summer; the second isthe presence of a cold current from the Okhotsk Sea flowingdown both sides of the island. The ice, led by the currentand driven by the wind from this great reservoir of frost,fills up all the northern portion of the Straits of Tartary,and makes of it a continuation of the sub-arctic regionof frost. The winters cold is, however, fine and dry, and thoughit has been said that Sakhalin does not know the calmdays that prevail throughout the winte

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