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.

Ekate