citing
porpoise race--Glimpse of San Francisco--Trip to the Yo Semite
Valley--From the Golden Gate into the Pacific

CHAPTER II.

A strange company--Difficulties of sea life--A tall man and a short
room--How the dog went to sleep--A soapy cabin--Catching a booby--Two
Sundays together--A long lost wreck--Incidents at sea--Manner of
catching whales in 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