The blueberry grows there, but is less abundant than the "maroska," a berry that I never saw in America.
It is yellow when ripe, has an acid flavor, and resembles the raspberry in shape and size.

We ate the maroska in as many forms as it could be prepared, and they told us that it grew in Scotland, Scandinavia, and Northern Russia.
[Illustration: TAKING THE CENSUS.] The ordinary residents at the mouth of Ghijiga river were the pilot and his family, with three or four Cossacks to row boats on the bay.
The natives of the vicinity came there occasionally, but none were permanent citizens.

The arrival of the Variag and Clara Bell gave unusual activity to the settlement, and the Ispravnik might have returned a large population had he imitated the practice of those western towns that take their census during the stay of a railway train or a steamboat.

There was once, according to a rural historian, an aspiring politician in Tennessee who wanted to go to Congress.
There were not inhabitants enough in his district to send him, and so he placed a couple of his friends at the railway station to take the names of passengers as they visited the refreshment saloon and entered or left the depot.

In a short time the requisite constituency was secured and sworn to, so that the aspirant for official honor accomplished the wish of his heart.
[Illustration: LIGHT-HOUSE AT GHIJIGA.] The light-house on the promontory is a hexagonal edifice ten feet in diameter and height; it is of logs and has a flat top covered with dirt, whereon to kindle a fire.