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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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Kirin. From their confluencethese rivers, now called the Sungari, flow in a north-easterly direction, joining the river Amur about 160 milesabove Khabarovsk. The Sungari, like the Amur, isnavigable for a great distance, even as far as Kirin,where Mr. Hosie * speaks of having seen steamboats. AtKharbin, where I crossed it, the river was half a mile wide. The traveller, crossing Manchuria by railway fromVladivostok, passes through only the central and northernprovinces, whereas the line from Port Arthur traverses allthree, joining the Vladivostok branch at Kharbin, on theriver Sungari. The latter line passes near Mukden, thecapital of Feng-tien, and the former not far from Ninguta,but leaves Kirin, the capital of the province of that name,quite away on the upper Sungari. From Kharbin thejoint-line crosses the Sungari into Heh-lung-Kiang, andruns within sixteen miles of the capital Tsitsikar, on theNonni, and ends within that province a few miles north-west of lake Dalai Nor. * Op. cit.
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ACROSS MANCHURIA 413 From Vladivostok to Manchuria station, which is theterminus, near the Siberian border, is a distance of 107 iimiles. From Port Arthur it is 124 miles longer. The actualChinese Eastern or Manchurian line (excluding the Kharbinto Port Arthur section), is 943^ miles long, for from Vladi-vostok to Grodekov, 128 miles, the railroad is a branch ofthe Ussuri Railway, and traverses Russian territory. From Manchuria station, twelve miles south of theSiberian frontier, a loop-line of the Trans-BaikalianRailway, reputed to have been in working for two years,could be depended upon for connecting with the main line,which would land the traveller in a definite time, if ofseveral days, at Irkutsk. The duration of the journey from Vladivostok toManchuria station was a matter of guess-work, but I wasassured that I might reckon on the 1071^ milesbeing covered in about six days. Some still declaredthat there remained nearly 200 versts of the railroadunfinished, while others maintain

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