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ST. VLAbiMIR BAY. 
Saghalicn, who have come over the neighbouring 
cliffs to gaze upon the brown-haired strangers. 
These stand motionless and silent, watching our 
every movement with a fixed and wondering stare. 
Long, white, spinous processes of the dorsal ver- 
tebrae of a whale, sticking up above the grass, 
look like tombstones of departed Phocae. I dis- 
covered here a rare prize, in the skull of a large 
seal, with a vertical bony crest extending from 
the frontal bone to the occiput. An imper- 
fect skull of the Halicore, or dugong, was another 
grand addition to the number of my specimens. I 
obtained, besides, the crania — ^both, alas ! much 
injured — of two species of Delphinus, or true 
dolphins. * 
We were now in St. Vladimir Bay, a wide and 
deep recess on the Manchurian coast, a little north 
of Olga. Sea-cliffs bound the long, curved outline 
of the bay, their summits green A\dth oaks. Below 
them the ground is level, and a belt of verdure 
extends from the cliffs to the waters edge. The 
undergrowth is dark and humid, and the number of 
