Note 20 — Chapter XLVI · THE GILYAKS.

M. de la Brunière then describes his fatigues, his only food being millet boiled in water. “You must cut and drag trees, light fires (necessary against the cold and tigers), prepare your victuals in wind and rain, and all this in the midst of a swarm of mosquitoes and gad-flies, who do not suspend their attacks till about 10 or 12 in the evening. Water and wood were abundant at first, ... but 30 leagues from the Ussuri, the springs became so scarce that we were compelled to do like the birds of heaven, and eat the millet raw.”