CHAPTER VIII.

How a pointer became a bull dog--Coral in high latitudes--Sending
Champagne to Neptune--Arrival at Ohotsk--Three kinds of natives--A
lunch with the ladies--A native entertainment--A mail once a year--A
lover's misfortune--An astonished American--Hunting a bear and being
hunted--An unfortunate ride

CHAPTER IX.

At sea again--Beauties of a Northern sky--Warlike news and preparing
for war--The coast of Japan--An exciting moment--A fog bell of sea
lions--Ready for fight--De Castries' bay--A bewildered fleet--Goodbye
to the Variag--In the straits of Tartary--A difficult sleeping
place--A Siberian mirage--Entering the Amoor river

CHAPTER X.

On shore at Nicolayevsk--An American Consul--Visiting the
Governor--Machine shops on the Amoor with American managers--The
servant girl question--A Gilyak boat full of salmon--An unfortunate
water carrier--The Amoor Company--Foreign and native
merchants--Raising sheep among tigers--Rats eating window
glass--Riding in a cart

CHAPTER XI.

Up the Amoor--Seeing off a friend--A Siberian steamboat--How the
steamboats are managed--Packages by post--Curiosities of the Russian