284 



A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA 



they were of low stature, like Japanese, and when at 

 ease would bring out long pipes and sit smoking on 



A BUKIAT TVl'K. 



the shore. The greatest width of the Amur between 

 Nikolaievsk and Khabarovsk attains three-quarters of 

 a mile, narrowing at j)laces to four or five hundred 

 yards, and, although the current was not unusually 



