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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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whereasin the Primorsk poor emigrants without capital and ex-convicts with less hope have been imported to strugglewith nature in a wild mood. The scenery altered little as the train entered on thenorthern section of the Ussuri railway, save that the valleyopened out into a wider plain. These great stretches ofmeadow-land seemed to invite American methods of agri-culture. Many a stream rising in the Sikhota range, faraway to the east, was hurrying across the plain to join theUssuri, and as we crossed them I was reminded of theNorfolk Broads, for their banks were gay with meadow-sweet, white campanulas, gentians, Michaelmas daisiesand spiraea (S. betulcsfolia ?). The trees, which at first weremostly oak, ash, willow, walnut, hornbeam and cedar, gaveway to birch and spruce, and then to the elder, larch, elm,maple and acacia. To the north forests were more frequent and settle-ments less so. Our train was making up for lost time, forat the end of twenty-four hours we had averaged fifteen
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FROM VLADIVOSTOK TO KHABAROVSK 35 miles an hour, making no allowance for some moderately-lengthy stoppages. The stations were well built of wood, sometimes ofbrick, and occasionally stood well back from the line, witha garden between. Curiously enough the station names were painted inSlav characters, which for an ordinary Russian are moredifficult to read at a glance than old English characterswould be for us. The halts were fully made use of by the third-classpassengers to procure food. As the train steamed in, afew women, barefooted, with kerchiefed heads, were to beseen hurrying from the railway-workers huts with apronsfull of victuals—eggs, roast corn (maize), cucumbers, beans,even cooked fowls and rude pots containing milk. Alonely sort of life this, of two or three families at a waysidestation ; nothing but forest and plain, with no companionsfor miles, but not to be compared with that of those whohad no passing trains to break the monotony, albeit theydid arouse envy of the h

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