48 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA 



on the subject of his false statement, the interpreter 

 replied, in a sneering tone, that all the ladies of 

 Mokho were of a very low morality ! We bade 

 farewell to our temporary host and took a walk round 

 the vilkiL'-e, which consisted of one street runnino- 





A STERN-WHKELER ON THE AMUR. 



parallel to the river, filled up on each side with small 

 dirty shops and a crowded population of miserable- 

 looking Manchurian fishermen ^uid petty tradesmen. 

 I learnt that the district was a gold-mining one, and 

 that adventurers from all parts of the Chinese Empire 

 had sought fortune in the locality. They had formed 



