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divide and repack the goods that had already been purchased 

 in Europe. Mr. Bogoras was more fortunate, as the one ves- 

 sel which visits the Anadyr country annually did not sail 

 until June 14. 



As the next vessel for Gichiga was not to sail until July 24, 

 I had considerable time at my disposal, which I employed in 

 making a collection of the fishes found in the harbor at Vladi- 

 vostok and the Gulf of Peter the Great. There are no streams 

 in the vicinity of Vladivostok where fresh- water fish could be 

 taken, so on May 27 I went by train to Nikolsk and posted 

 from there by telegas to Lake Khanka, a distance of ninety 

 miles, arriving on the 29th. Governor Chichigoff had kindly 

 wired the officials along the way of my coming, provided me 

 with letters of introduction, and an official request for post- 

 horses, so that notwithstanding my inability to speak the 

 language I got along very well. At the lake I was entertained 

 by Mr. Shubenko, who had two or three cabins there and 

 employed twenty Korean fishermen during the summer and 

 supplied the Nikolsk market with fresh fish. This lake is a 

 shallow, gradually shoaling body of water, lying between 44 

 30' and 45 30' N. and 132 and 133 E. It is about 50 miles 

 long, 40 miles wide, and 225 feet above sea-level, and is sur- 

 rounded by extensive marshes which drain into the Sungari 

 River, a tributary of the Amoor. Through the interest my 

 host and his men took in my collection I was able to fill my 

 tanks in one week and secure specimens of all the food fishes 

 that occurred there at that season of the year, although the 

 smaller and probably more interesting ones I did not get on 

 account of the lack of necessary means. Early on the morn- 

 ing of June 5 the telega which I had ordered from Kamen- 

 ribiloff, a post station one mile distant, called for me and 

 after a wild, rough ride of six relays I reached Nikolsk at 

 midnight and returned to Vladivostok the next day. 



On June 18 the steamship company told us that a vessel 

 would be despatched for Gichiga between the 2oth and 28th 

 of June, so we renewed our efforts to get everything in readi- 

 ness, and felt hopeful of getting in the field before the short, 

 northern summer had passed, when, on the 2ist, rumors of the 



