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THE SHADOW OF THE GLOOMY EAST

hunt" is being pursued by the peasants near the lake Chanka, which is the junction of many converging paths of the yellow prospectors, who usually go down the river from Sungach to the frontier of Mongolia. Besides the peasants, the Cossacks indulge In this unpunished crime as a matter of profession.