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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 a cow brought home one day--Siberian dogs--A musical
town--The adventures of Norcum--Training a team--Sledges and how
to manage them--A voyage under the Polish flag--Monument to
Captain Clerke--The allied attack--The battle of Petropavlovsk


CHAPTER V.
Bering's voyages--Discovery of Alaska--Shipwreck and death of
Bering--The Russian-American Company--The first governor of
Alaska--Promushleniks--Russian settlement in California--Account of
Russian explorations--Character of the country--Its extent and
resources--Advantages and disadvantages of the Alaska purchase


CHAPTER VI.

Leaving Kamchatka--Farewell to the ladies--A new kind of
telegraph--Entering the Ohotsk sea--From Steam to sail--Sleeping
among chronometers--Talking by-signs--A burial at sea--A Russian
funeral--Land in sight--Ghijiga bay


CHAPTER VII.
Baggage for shore travel--Much wine and little bread--A perplexing
dilemma--How to take the census--Siberian beds--Towed by
dogs--Encounter with a beast--Coaxing a team with clubs--The
Koriaks--Their manners and customs--Comical cap for a native--A four
footed currency--Yourts and Balagans--Curious marriage
ceremony--Lightening a boat in a storm--Very strong whisky--Riding
on a reindeer--An intoxicating mushroom--An electric devil--a Siberian
snow storm--How a party was lost


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
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.
First view of China--A beautiful region--Petrovsky--Women in the
water--An impolite reception--A scanty population--Visiting a military

post--Division of labor for a hunting excursion--The Songaree--A
Chinese military station--Resources of the Songaree--Experience of a
traveler--Hunting a tiger--A perilous adventure


CHAPTER XVI.
Ekaterin--Nikolskoi--The Province of the Amoor--Character of the
Cossack--The Buryea Mountains--A man overboard--Passing a
mountain chain--Manjour boats--Bringing pigs to market--Women in
the open air--A new tribe of natives--Rest for a bath--Russian
caviar--How it is made--Feeding with a native--A heavy drink--A fleet
of fishing boats


CHAPTER XVII.
Scenery on the middle Amoor--A military colony--Among the
Manjours--A Manjour temple--A Chinese naval station--A crew of
women--Strange ways of catching fish--The city of Igoon--Houses
plastered with mud--Visiting a harem--Talking
pigeon-Chinese--Visiting the prison


CHAPTER XVIII.
The mouth of the Zeya--Blagoveshchensk--Kind reception by the
governor--Attending a funeral--A polyglot doctor and his
family--Intercourse with the Chinese--A visit to Sakhalin-Oula--A

government office--A Chinese traveling carriage--Visiting a Manjour
governor--A polite official--A Russian Mongol reception--Curiosities
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