Introduction
Editor’s Note
Preface to A Voyage Down the Amoor
I Departure for Siberia
II From Moscow to Nijne-Novgorod
III Nijne-Novgorod—The Great Fair
IV From Nijne to Ekaterinburg
V From Ekaterinburg to Omsk
VI From Omsk to Irkutsk
VII Irkutsk
VII From Irktsk to Kyachta
IX Kyachta, Mai-Mat-Tschin, and the Feast of Lanterns
X A Russian Dinner
XI From Irkutsk to Petrovskey
XII From Petrovskey to Verchne-Udinsk
XIII From Verchne-Udinsk to Chetah
XIV A Visit to the Mines of Nerchinsk
XV The Silver Mines of Zarentunskie
XVI The Cossacks of the Argoon
XVII The Gold Mines of the Onon
XVIII Passage of Mount Bornorskoy
XIX Residence at Chetah
XX A Wild-Goose Chase
XXI Departure from Chetah
XXII Down the Ingodah
XXIII A Mineral Spring
XXIV From Bankin to Schilkah
XXV From Schilkah to Ouse-Cherney
XXVI From Russian into Chinese WAters
XXVII First View of the Amoor
XXVIII From Ouse-Strelkah to Albasin
XXIX On the River
XXX A Mangoon Camp
XXXI Manchoo Visitors
XXXII A Manchoo Guard-Boat
XXXIII Arrival at Igoon
XXXIV Manchoo Spies
XXXV A Manchoo Village
XXXVI A Tartar Beauty
XXXVII Manchoo Junks
XXXVIII The Sonahree
XXXIX Russian Progress
XL Floating Along
XLI The Navigation
XLII The Hongahree
XLIV A Goldee Village
XLV Female Sailors
XLVI A Night of Danger
XLVII Ancient Monuments
XLVIII Arrival at Nikolaivsky
XLIX Nikolaivsky
L American Residents
LI Character of the Amoor Country
LII Natives on the Amoor
LIII Trade and Resources of Siberia
LIV Voyage to Japan
LV Hakodadi
LVI To Kamschatka
LVII Stay at Petropaulosky
A Note on the Sources
Index