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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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them. The latter immediately went off to Patrin, andcomplained that the overseer was drunk, and had madea disturbance, etc. When the overseer, who had gone tofetch his wife, returned, he found the Chief of the prisonthere, who, without warning, struck him a blow in theface. Blood flowed from his mouth, and in his half-stunned condition he appeared to be making for the riverclose by, but soon lost consciousness. When he came to,he went to the Chief of the district, informed him, andclaimed damages, because for one officer to strike another,like a convict, was no small offence. The district Chief,however, deprecated any scandal, and advised him to letit blow over. Under such a man were the political exiles in prison ;and to him those living in Alexandrovsk would have hadto apply for their rations, had they not foregone their claim,and striven, by their own exertions, to keep body andsoul together. While my interpreter was yet in prison,at the beginning of his term on Sakhalin, he had to
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5PERATE CHARACTER. \To face page 363. STORIES OF PRISONERS 363 undergo several unpleasant interviews with Patrin. Hisstory not only illustrates the arbitrary and uncontrolledbehaviour of the prison-master towards officials ; but alsothe class of obstinate criminal occasionally to be dealtwith, rendered more so in this case by the arbitrary con-duct of the official before whom he had to appear. Mr. X. said : I had gone at the stated time when theChief held audience to beg permission to be let out of thecriminals prison and live in lodgings. I could see Patrinthrough the doorway, sitting at his table, and inquiring ofthe overseers in the ante-room who were friendly if hewere in a good mood, they assured me that it was a favour-able moment. Dont wait, they said, until the convictscome ; he is in a beautiful temper now ! As fate wouldhave it, however, whilst I was standing behind a soldier,waiting my opportunity of a pause in the Chiefs writing,an overseer entered, and, unfortunately, fel

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