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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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sfrozen, but to the north of that all is covered save foroccasional holes. It is no easy journey along the ice-bound fringe of the coast, northwards to Cape Pogobi, andthence across the snow-covered frozen sea to the mainland. To the narta, as the sledge is called, are harnessedthirteen dogs of the Arctic type. No. 1 is the leader, avaluable animal, the cleverest and most experienced. Hehas shoulder-straps, and one also passing between his legsis attached to the sledge. To this strap the others arejoined by thongs on either side, and should any shirktheir work, they are pounced upon by the leader or theirfellows, and severely bitten. No reins, nothing but thestrap connects the team with the sledge and its driver. Thenarta is a lightly constructed framework of wood, aboutfourteen inches high and fourteen feet long. Higgledy-piggledy lie the dogs outside the post-office at Alex-androvsk, their master in furs, mocassins and long skinhood, from out which peeps his pigtail. But already the
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THE ISLAND OF SAKHALIN 109 mails are out and on the narta, and the Gilyak, seizing thedogs, casts them to right and left. Throwing himselfquickly astride of the sledge, feet on rails, clasping his twoshort iron-shod sticks, and calling, Ti ti, i.e. Forward,to the dogs, the mail is away. A dash down the hill, andless than a miles run brings them to the sea ; but whichis sea and which is land ? All is covered with snow. For100 miles they pursue their course over the frozen fringeof the sea. Should they meet a traveller, the driver digs hissticks (caur) into the snow, and calls, Pore ! (Stop !) orKan ! Kau ! (Right! Right!) The dogs swerve, the leftleg of the Gilyak is seen oddly in the air, but the sticksmaintain his balance, and the equipage is quickly turnedaside. Should the owner, however, fail to see the traveller,the dogs may fly at the stranger and do him grievousinjury, for in order to keep them running they are onlyhalf fed until the end of the journey. From Cape Pogobi the cros

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