Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
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Contents
CHAPTER I. Off from New York--Around the world by steam--Value of a letter of credit--A cure for sea sickness--Doing the Isthmus--An exciting porpoise race--Glimpse of San Francisco--Trip to the Yo Semite Valley--From the Golden Gate into the Pacific CHAPTER II. A strange company--Difficulties of sea life--A tall man and a short room--How the dog went to sleep--A soapy cabin--Catching a booby--Two Sundays together--A long lost wreck--Incidents at sea--Manner of catching whales in Alaska--A four footed pilot--Dog stories--How to take an observation--Coast of Asia--Entering Avatcha bay--An economical light keeper CHAPTER III. In a Russian port--Hail Columbia--Petropavlovsk--Volcanoes and earth-quakes--Directions for making a Russian town--A Kamchadale wedding--Standing up with the bride--A hot ceremony--A much married pope--Russian religious practices--Drinking with the priest and what came of it CHAPTER IV. Vegetation in Kamchatka--Catching salmon--A scaly bridge--An evening on shore--Samovars and tea drinking--The fur trade--Bear hunting--What |
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