Commutation is regulated according to the price of the articles where the ship was last supplied.
I was told that the sailor's pay, including ordinary allowances, is about a hundred roubles a year.

The sum is not munificent, but probably the Muscovite mariner is no more economical than the American one.

In his liberty on shore he will get as drunk as the oft quoted 'boiled owl.' _En passant_ I protest against the comparison, as it is a slander upon the owl.
At Petropavlovsk there was an amusing fraternization between the crews of the Variag and the Wright.

The American sailors were scattered among the Russians in the proportion of one to six.

Neither understood a word of the other's language, and the mouth and eye were obliged to perform the duties of the ear.