Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
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mail service--An unhappy bride--Hay barges--Gilyak villages--Visiting
a village--Bad for the nose--Native dogs--Interviewing a Gilyak lady--A rapid descent CHAPTER XII. The monastery of Eternal Repose--Curious religious customs--Features of the scenery--Passengers on our boat--An adventurous merchant--Captured by the Chinese--A pretty girl and her fellow passenger--Wooding up--An Amoor town--The telegraph--How it is built and operated--A native school--Fighting the tiger--Religious practices of the Gilyaks--Mistaken kindness CHAPTER XIII. Stepanoff and his career--A Manjour boat--Catching salmon--A sturgeon pen--The islands of the Amoor--A night scene at a wooding station--A natural cathedral--The birds of the Amoor--The natives of the country--Interviewing a native Mandarin CHAPTER XIV. Entering a Goldee house--Native politeness--What to do with a tame eagle--An intelligent dog team--An exciting race--A Mongol belle--Visiting a Goldee house at night--A reception in a shirt--Fish skin over-coats--Curious medical custom--Draw poker on the Amoor river--Curiosity--Habarofka--"No turkey for me"--A visit on shore--Experience with fleas CHAPTER XV. |
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