Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
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of the Chinese police system--Advice to the Emperor of China
CHAPTER XIX. A deer-hunting picnic--Russian ploughing--Nursing a deer gazelle--A shot and what came of it--The return and overturn--The Siberian gazelle--A Russian steam bath--How to take it--On a new steamer--The cabin of the Korsackoff--A horse opera--An intoxicated priest--Private stock of provisions--The dove a sacred bird--Emigrant rafts--A Celestial guard house CHAPTER XX. The upper Amoor--Sagayan cliff--- Hunting for gold--Rich gold mines in the Amoor valley--The Tungusians--A goose for a cigar--An awkward rifle--Albazin--The people in Sunday dress--The siege of Albazin--Visiting the old fort CHAPTER XXI. A sudden change--Beef preserved with laurel leaves--A Russian settler--New York pictures in a Russian house--The Flowery Kingdom--Early explorations--The conquest of the Amoor--A rapid expedition--The Shilka and the Argoon--An old settled country--A lady in the case--Hotels for the exiles--Stratensk--A large crowd--- End of a long steamboat ride CHAPTER XXII. A hotel at Stratensk--A romantic courtship--Starting overland--A |
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