“The Russians are brave—very brave. But not many are good, and they
are savages. They can be very polite when it suits them; when not—ah!
Russian sailors are miserable people who lie in the snow, who have
very little money, which they spend in buying cheap fish. They are
very dirty. That is all we know of Russian sailors, who are quite like
strange people to us. But we have no fear as to the result of a war
with the Polar Bear.”
[41] Expressed before the Russo-Japanese War.