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In Sahalin there is very good fish, but there are no hot drinks.... Our geologists, ichthyologists, zoologists and so on, are fearfully uneducated people. They write such a vile jargon that it not only bores one to read it, but one actually has at times to remodel the sentences before one can understand them; on the other hand, they have solemnity and earnestness enough and to spare.
Society would be pleased if the Government were to send all the husbands to Sahalin. Oh, M'sieu, you don't know how it excites my indignation to see the corruption of morals nowadays. To love other men's wives is as much the regular thing to-day as to smoke other men s cigarettes and to read other men's books.
I was received by the local administration very amicably, though Galkin had not written a single word about me. Neither Galkin nor the Baroness V., nor any of the other genii I was so foolish as to appeal to for help, turned out of the slightest use to me; I had to act on my own initiative. The Sahalin general, Kononovitch, is a cultivated and gentlemanly man.
My pen ran away with me besides, I wanted to go on talking to you. It's three o'clock in the night. My hand is tired. The wick of the candle wants snuffing, I can hardly see. Write to me at Sahalin every four or five days. It seems that the post goes there, not only by sea but across Siberia, so I shall get letters frequently.
It was observed long ago that with the development of erysipelas, the growth of malignant tumours is temporarily checked. It's a strange business while I was travelling to Sahalin and back I felt perfectly well, but now, at home, the devil knows what is happening to me.
But criticism maintains a dignified silence or gets out of it with idle trashy babble. If it seems to you authoritative it is because it is stupid, conceited, impudent, and clamorous; because it is an empty barrel one cannot help hearing. But let us have done with that and sing something out of a different opera. Please don't build any literary hopes on my Sahalin trip.
Little by little I seem gradually to be stepping into a fantastic world. The steamer rocks, it is hard to write. To-morrow I shall reach Habarovsk. The Chinaman began to sing from music written on his fan. SAHALIN, July 11, 1890. Arrived well, telegraph Sahalin. SAHALIN, September 27, 1890. Well. Shall arrive shortly. THE STEAMER "BAIKAL," September 11, 1890. Greetings!
You write that I have given up Sahalin. I cannot abandon that child of mine. When I am oppressed by the boredom of belles-lettres I am glad to turn to something else. The question when I shall finish Sahalin and when I shall print does not strike me as being important. While Galkin-Vrasskoy reigns over the prison system I feel very much disinclined to bring out my book.
I have a passionate desire to talk to you. My soul is in a ferment. I want no one else but you, for it is only with you I can talk. How glad I am that everything was managed without Galkin-Vrasskoy's help. He didn't write one line about me, and I turned up in Sahalin utterly unknown. MOSCOW, December 24, 1890. I believe in Koch and in spermine and praise God for it.
The waves cast up a boat with six American whalefishers, who had been shipwrecked off the coast of Sahalin; they are living now at the station and solemnly walk about the streets. They are waiting for the Petersburg and will sail with me. I am not bringing you furs, there are none in Sahalin. Keep well and Heaven guard you all. I am bringing you all presents.
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