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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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m would bebettered by the provision for a more careful classificationof the prisoners, and it is quite evident that the penalty ofdeath should be extended to the murderer of a civilian, aswell as an official on Sakhalin. Only by such means canthe security of the law-abiding inhabitant be ensured. Butthe crying fault is the failure of the officials, their slacknessand arbitrariness, their open immorality and peculation.Making all allowance for the demoralizing atmosphere ofthe criminal population among whom their duty placesthem, the state of things I have so meagrely sketched is aterrible indictment. Closer and more regular inspection from headquartersis needed ; but above and before all, the appointment of astrong, firm, but benevolent governor is desirable. Hemust be strong enough to fear no cavilling reports from hisunderlings, and must have power to dismiss and reformwithout regard to the prescriptive right of long-standing,evil-doing officials of the Patrin stamp. There are a few
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FAREWELL TO SAKHALIN. \Toface-page 400. SAKHALIN TO VLADIVOSTOK 401 well-intentioned, kindly men among them, but they are notstrong ; and the network woven by the arbitrary, peculating,and immoral type is almost impossible to break through. The morning after my departure saw the Tsitsikarstanding in for De Castries Bay. It is a well-shelteredharbour, with a depth at entrance of fifty feet, diminish-ing to thirty feet off Observatory Island, a bold islet sonamed by La Perouse, because his officers set up theirinstruments on it, after a long interval, to determine theirexact position. To the south of this is a small islet calledOyster Island, and to the north-east is Basalt Island. Nearthe southern head stands up on the promontory of KlosterKamp a fine lighthouse, then about to be deserted by thepilots with the cessation of navigation. On the north-western shore of the bay, at the mouth of the river Somon,is Alexandrovsk post, consisting of a telegraph-office, withthe houses of the Chie

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