Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
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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 |
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