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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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nd on the handle of the next, a Russian official, with aviolence and rudeness which the foreigner only experienceswhen the velvet glove is involuntarily withdrawn, seized it,and claimed that this and that and the next were en-gaged. At this juncture I appealed to the station-master,and he led me into the booking-office. There I saw whatwas going on behind the scenes, and why the distributionof tickets was such a lengthy business. The price of eachwas a matter of reference, followed by subtle calculationson the abacus, after which there was much writing on thepaper and its counterfoil before a ticket could be issued.Meanwhile, the crowd fought and struggled at the littleopening. For four hours some of them must have pushedand scrimmaged before they obtained their tickets. Tomy surprise, the station-master humbled himself beforethe great booking-clerk, and begged a ticket for me,a stranger; and it was full ten minutes before he wouldconsider the station-masters request, and only then by
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MANCHURIA TO CHITA 441 the additional persuasion of placing the exact money beforehim. The first-class being hopelessly full, I had to contentmyself with a second-class ticket, but it was another matterto obtain a seat. The journey was one of four nights and three days toLake Baikal ; but, fortunately for me, I intended to stopat Chita, which would give me only two nights and a dayin this crowded train, and the chance of getting a less fullone for the rest of the journey. The second-class being also full, there was an alterca-tion between the station-master and some officers, but factsbeing too strong for them, the position had to be accepted,and room made for all. The difficulty came at night toaccommodate us all, but it ended in one of the passengers,a pleasant, rough, little Siberian tradesman, who told meafterwards a good deal of his story, retiring into the rackfor the night, and a big official stretching himself on theboxes and baggage between the seats. The frontier was crossed

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