Note 4 — Chapter XLIX · THE ISLAND OF SAKHALIN.
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A traveller writing in the North China Herald of August 5th last, describing what he saw of the convicts in Sakhalin, says: “They lived in barracks which from the outside appeared to be large, airy, and commodious. One evening we went to one of them, in which about 1,000 convicts were ranged in the courtyard. We passed round the building and saw that, for ventilation and comfort, arrangements of the most complete kind had been made.” But I think he speaks of Korsakovsk, south of Dui, where there were in 1881, as I learn from official sources, 450 male and female convicts with their families.