The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-02-24
THE LONG RACE
OF THE AUTOS
SOME OF THE DIFFICULTIES OF
THE GLOBE-CIRCLING TRIP
FROM PARIS.

PARIS, Jan. 14.-In a recent num-
Der of the Franco-Russian newspaper
.Nichevo, published in st. Petersburg,
Gen. Linevitch, aid de camp of the
Emperor of Russia and recent COM
mander in chief of the Russian armies
in Manchuria, publishes a signed arti-
Gle devoted to the New York-Paris
race organized by LIE Matin of Paris,
with the collaboration of The New
York Times. The General, while rec
ognizing the hardships which the con-
testants will have to undergo, says
that the project is feasible and is of
nature to excite widespread interest
and admiration.
THE country in the northeast Of ST.
beria,' says Gen. Linevitch, lis almost
completely uninhabited This applies
especially to the interior of the Tchou-
kotsk peninsula. There are, indeed, q
few occupied posts on the east coast,
but they are very far apart and num-
Der but few inhabitants. There are to
be found there only few Russians,
who have come from Mini Kolymsk
or from Guijigue.
"In and about these posts there are
| also certain number of natives, who
assist the Russians in carrying on
their commerce with the American
/ Esquimos. The post which has the larg-
est population is the village of Ouvine,
on the Boring Strait. The village OF
Oumelyne, $50 versts further south, is
| also a considerable trading center, the
population sometimes amounting to
5000 men and women. The richest
citizens of these two villages occupy
houses such as we understand the
term, but most of the inhabitants live
in dug-outs. When the weather is not
too severe houses are deserted for
tents of reindeer hide.
"Oumeyine is regarded as the prin-
cipal center of commerce on the east
coast of the Tchoukotsk peninsula
Some years as many as sixty steamers
call there. In the interior of the pen
Ursula are to be found only few scat
tered camps of Tchoutchkiss. These
natives are nomadic and are almost in
constant movement. In winter
strangely enough, they go north as far
as the Arctic Ocean with their herds
of reindeer. In summer they come
south again into the interior Almost
the entire extent of the peninsula Is
an immense marsh, or tundra, which
is difficult to cross in the three sum
mer months. In winter the marsh is
/ frozen solid.
when the contestants in the New
YOrk-Paris race have once crossed
Bering Strait they will find themselves
on the coast of Siberia, near the vii
lage of Ouelhyn, from which poin
they can organize their route to Mini
Kolymsk over one of two trails. Ont
OF these leads directly across the pen
insula to the point of destination. 1
should be said at once that this roat
p is extremely difficult, for from on
, end to the other the travellers will no
p Isee a single inhabited village Onl,
( from time to time they will meet al
occasional group of natives with
herd of reindeer. These natives, tn
!. Tchoutchkiss, as I have already said
generally spend the entire winter o
- the coast of the frozen ocean. But
is possible that even this early in tn
Spring few of them will have begu
their migration southwark.
although the road leads almos
constantly across the tundra, fairl
important mountain chain will ais
have to be crossed. For this part
the trip guides will be necessary. tn
road is not impossible, as it has a