X CONTENTS 



At Pokrovskoie— Proceed to Mokho, a Chinese village on the 

 Amur River — A gold-mining district— Arrival at Blagovestchensk 

 — Departure for Aigun — Steaming down the Amur to Radde — 

 Two Cossack hunters — Their report of native game — Reach 

 Khabaro\'sk, the chief town on the Amur — Government House 

 and the Museum— The line to Madivostok, along the Ussuri 

 River, twenty-seven days from St. Petersburg . P<^^g<i 22 



CHAPTER HI. 



Arrival at X'ladivostok — Government House — Sable skins — Engage 

 a Chinese cook — On board the Baikal — The island of Askold — 

 Yesso and the Straits of Tsugar — Hakodadi Harbour — Our 

 fellow-travellers— The Tchukchi tribe — Strange marriage cus- 

 toms — \'endetta — Reindeer — Report of wild sheep in Northern 

 Siberia — Esquimaux dogs and their drivers — Report of wild 

 sheep on the Ganal Range — Whales seen off the Kuriles — Rus- 

 sian whaling in the Sea of Okhotsk — Rarity of the sperm whale 

 — A North Pacific fog — Capture of a tufted auk — Off Cape Lo- 

 patka — Southern Kamchatka — The entrance to Avatcha Bay — 

 Koriatska volcano — Arrival in Petropavlovsk Harbour — The Is- 

 pravnik, chief of the district — Government House — Taxes — The 

 price of furs . . . . ... 64 



CHAPTER IV. 



A Kamchatkan hunter — Bear skins and sables — Mode of hunting 

 the sable— Market value of the fur — A hunter frozen to death — 

 Wild sheep in Asatcha Bay — Preparations for a start — High 

 prices at the stores — A Chinese t7/^y— Salmon and sea-trout — 

 Other fishes of Kamchatka — Japanese fish-poachers — Netting 

 the ri\'ers — ■\'olcanoes of Koriak and Avatchinsky — Many bear 

 skins — Large numbers exported to America — Curious antlers of 

 caribou — Pallas's sea-eagle — Hauling the nets — Embark on 

 board the Stofoj — Loss of our fourth boat — A team of sledge- 

 dogs photographed — The ship's engine breaks down — Again in 

 camp on the sandspit — A start for the Ganal range — The har- 

 bour bar — Dug-out canoes for river-work — Ten miles in twehe 

 hours — Reach Khutor — The natives described — Bargaining for 

 ponies — A stampede — Deluge of rain — Capercaillie in the birch 

 woods — Tracks of a bear — Swarm of moscjuitoes — .A wet and dry 

 tundra — The Bolshaia River — Arrive at Natchiki . . . 109 



