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TAIL PIECE--MEETING AN OLD FRIEND Contents CHAPTER I.
Off from New York--Around the world by steam--Value of a letter of credit--A cure for sea sickness--Doing the Isthmus--An exciting 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 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 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 unfortunates"-- The treatment of prisoners--Attempts to escape--Buying a tarantass--Light marching order--A bad road--Sleeping on a stove--The valley of the Ingodah--Two hours in a mud hole--Recklessness of drivers--Arrival at Chetah.