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SAGHALEEK 
living mosses form, like ivy concealing tire decaying 
walls of an ancient ruin, networks and embroideries, 
over tlieir corroded valves. 
AVe bad been driven by the fury of the gale 
through La Perouse Strait into the sea of Okhotsk, 
and were again quietly at anchor in Aniwa Bay, 
in Saghaleen, as the Aiuos, the aborigines of the 
island, call it. It is also termed by the natives, 
Isoka ; ” in fact, I find that geographers as well 
as naturalists may sometimes be embarrassed by a 
multiplicity of synonpns. The Japanese call the 
island ‘‘ Oku-Yesso ; ” the Russians Sachalicn ; ” it 
is named by old writers, Karafto ; ” and in ancient 
maps it is Sahalien,” “ Ula-hata,” ‘‘ Augo-hata,” 
“Island of the Black River,” and “Amur.” By 
Siebold, followed by Keith Johnston, it is called 
“ Tarakai,” but the name by which it is generally 
known is “ Saghaleen,” derived from “ Sagarun,” 
one of the names of the Amur River. 
The general features of the island are very 
similar to those of the opposite coast of Manchuria. 
Primaty formations compose hills and rocks of 
