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oreat Asiatic artery affords it a fair amount of traffic. 

 Moreover, recent discovery of goldfields in the neigh- 

 bourhood, tooether with its inexhaustible sahiion fish- 

 eries, contributes in no sHght degree to the welfare of 



TYPES AT NIKOLAIEVSK. 



the inhabitants, chiefiy Russian officials, petty trades- 

 men, fishermen, and former Sakhalin convicts. 



The buildings seemed to us quite luxurious after the 

 log huts of Kamchatkan settlements. Here again 

 stood in rows quantities of fish stores, where the kcta 



