We remained four days at Ghijiga and then sailed for Ohotsk.

For two days we steamed to get well out of the bay, and then stopped the engines aird depended upon canvas.

A boy who once offered a dog for sale was asked the breed of the pup.
"He _was_ a pointer," replied the youth; "but father cut off his ears and tail last week and made a bull-dog of him." Lowering the chimney and hoisting the screw, the Yariag became a sailing ship, though her steaming propensities remained, just as the artificial bull-dog undoubtedly retained the pointer instinct.

The ship had an advantage over the animal in her ability to resume her old character at pleasure.
On the fourth day, during a calm, we were surrounded by sea-gulls like those near San Francisco.

We made deep sea soundings and obtained specimens of the bottom from depths of two or three hundred fathoms.
Near the entrance of Ghijiga Bay we brought up coral from eighty fathoms of water, and refuted the theory that coral grows only in the tropics and at a depth of less than two hundred feet.