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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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s perquisites while the operations were goingon before us, though for the most part they feed them-selves in summer. Some of them were at the momentengaged in catching fish at the rivers edge, one or twoless particular than the others seizing a dead fish cast upon the shoals. We did no bartering here, Vanka having landed to begor borrow some seal-oil, for apparently his stock of thatgreat Gilyak delicacy, and (to us) horrible-smelling impedi-mentum, had run out. Our next stop was for the middaymeal at a bank opposite a fine sandy cliff, crowned withlarch-trees. Stepping out of the canoe, I espied somefresh footprints of Master Bruin, which our natives, witha discrimination remarkable to our untrained eyes, de-clared were those of a Cliuff that we had disturbed fishingat the moment. Examining the tracks more closely, Iwas sorely tempted to spare one of my fast diminishingphotograph films. The impression of the balls of the toesand the five claws in the sand was perfect, and to complete
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TO THE MOUTH OF THE TIM 175 all were the marks made by his claws as he slid involun-tarily into the water. Clambering up the bank, I found Vanka and Armunkahad the slices of the salmon already grilling in front of a fire.Running into the forest, they had deftly cut and preparedtwo willow twigs, stripping off the leaves, and slitting themlengthwise. In each of these was inserted a slice of fish,extended by two cross-pieces, the slit-ends at the sametime being bound up with the green rind. But it mustbe confessed that, though I admired their rapid methods inthe culinary department, I had scarcely the same respectfor our Gilyaks other domestic ways. They occasionallyassisted at washing up, but we thought it high time toreduce their share of it to the French interpretation ofthat word, when our spoons were finished off on theirmocassins, on which they wiped their fishy and clayeyhands. In the course of the afternoon we came to yet anotherGilyak settlement, the last in fact before we reach

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