rin--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 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
difficult ferry--A Russian posting carriage--Good substitute for a
trunk--"Road Agent" in Siberia--Rights of travelers--Kissing goes by
favor--Captain John Franklin's equipage--Value of a ball--Stuck in the
mud--The valley of the Nertcha--Reaching Nerchinsk

CHAPTER XXIII.

An extensive house--A Russian gold miner--Stories of the
exiles--Polish exiles--"The unfortunat