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and peasants on the one hand, and the Kirghiz on the other. In the first case it .is on a cash 

 basis, in the second on that of barter. 



In the Akmolinsk territory the chief subject of trade is cattle and their produce. In 

 30 local fairs in 1889 business was done in these articles to an amount of 8,000,000 roubles. 



Trade with the natives in the Littoral territory is somewhat peculiarly situated. 

 Almost all the natives are here in dependence on traders of different nationalities. Golds 

 and Oroches have fallen under the influence of the Chinese. The latter supply them goods 

 on credit, but secure themselves the whole of the native's future take of furs, getting the 

 same for a trifle. The Tunguses are in the same dependence on the Yakut traders. As regards 

 the shore tract and Kamchatka, here it is the Russian element that predominates. 



In the territory of the Amour, chiefly at the confluence of the large tributaries Zeya 

 and Bureya with the Amour, native fairs with barter take place. The best known on account 

 of the extent of its commercial transactions is the Kiman native gathering on the Bureya. 

 Here 3,000 sables are sold annually fetching 60,000 roubles, and other furs to the amount of 

 10,000 roubles. In the total for 1889 the imports into the Amour teiTitory of Russian goods 

 amounted to 2,500,000 roubles; and foreign, 1,000,000 roubles, or in all, 3,500,000 roubles. 



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