Book/Printed Material A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental notices of Manchooria, Kamschatka, and Japan.
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Image 2 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … A VOYAGE DOWS THE AlOOR WITH A I LAND JOURNEY THROUGH SIBERIA AND INCIDENTAL NOTICES OF MANCHOOKIA KAMSCIIATKA AND JAPAN BY PERRY McDOROUGHAOLLLYS UNITED STATES COMMERCIAL AGENT AT THE AMOOR RIVER D… -
Image 3 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … Entered according to Act of Congress in tlie year 1S60 Dy D APPLETON CO In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New… -
Image 4 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 9 TO LIEUTEMTGEiYEEAL MOUEAYIEFF GOVERNORGENERAL OF EASTERN SIBERIA COUNT OF TUB AMOOB ETC ETC 1IIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED IN TOKEN OF ADMIRATION AND GRATITUDE BY ONE WHO HAS SHARED HIS GENEROUS… -
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Image 6 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … PREFACE My attention was first turned towards Siberia by the perusal of Lieutenant Yon Wran gels narrative of an expedition to the Polar Sea Reflecting on the vast extent of the country… -
Image 7 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 2 PREFACE been effected To have gone to the mouth of the river myself as I was strongly inclined to do would have required me to charter a vessel for the express… -
Image 8 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … PAGH 5 10 15 23 30 38 49 55 58 64 70 73 79 89 92 96 99 106 113 119 122 128 131 135 139 144 150 156 161 CONTENTS CHAPTER… -
Image 9 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 4 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGB XXX From Bankin to Schilkah 165 XXXI From Schilkah to OuseCherney 171 XXXn From Russian into Chinese Waters 175 XXXIII First View of the Amoor 179 XXXIV From… -
Image 10 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … A VOYAGE DOWN THE AMOOR CHAPTER I DEPARTURE FOR SIBERIA On the 17th of May 1856 I reached Cronstadt in I he first steamer that had entered the port that year and… -
Image 11 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 6 VOYAGE DOWN THE AMOOR ernorGeneral of Eastern Siberia to whom my applica tion had been referred by the imperial government and who was then on a visit to Germany I waited… -
Image 12 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … DEPARTURE FOR SIBERIA 7 travel I continually practised myself in the Russian language wandering daily about the streets markets bazaars and shops of the city taking my meals at the native eatinghouses… -
Image 13 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 8 VOYAGE DOWN THE AMOOR parations to be made for Siberian travel and in company with Mr Peyton a countryman and friend who had agreed to make the journey with me as… -
Image 14 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … DEPASTURE FOR SIBERIA 9 tea sugar salt spices together with hams biscuits and other substantial provender It is the invariable custom in Russia to start on a journey in the evening instead… -
Image 15 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … CHAPTER II FROM MOSCOW TO NIJNENOVGOROD The bells attached to the yoke of our shafthorse jingled merrily our sleigh slid upon the slippery road from one side to the other the driver… -
Image 16 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … FROM MOSCOW TO NIJNENOVGOROD 11 my mind was so busy with the future for more than a year I had been straining every nerve to reach the goal of my ambitionthe Amoor… -
Image 17 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 12 VOYAGE DOWN THE AMOOR right all the time sleeping or waking this I understand is considered the safest and best mode and less fatiguing in long journeys as many persons have… -
Image 18 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … FROM MOSCOW TO NIJNENOVGOROD 13 pered into their ears a very different story and told them that if the Saint did not find his way hack to the Neva and that in… -
Image 19 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 14 VOYAGE DOWN THE AMOOR Novgorod very early in the morning The beasts were so poor and so jaded from previous hard driving that it had even at the start taken a… -
Image 20 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … CHAPTER III NIJNENOVGORODTHE GREAT FAIR We bore a letter from GovernorGeneral Mouravieff of Siberia to General Mouravieff bis kinsman governor of NijneNovgorod Immediately upon our arrival we sent the letter to him… -
Image 21 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 16 VOYAGE DOWN THE AMOOR had visited Nijne and those she had seen at Moscow dur ing the coronation She had kept the cards of those with whom she had become acquainted… -
Image 22 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … NIJNENOVGORODTHE GREAT FAIR 17 more dense until on reaching Nijni itself the crowd and turmoil sur passes all description The town of Nijni is situated on a high triangular promontory standing between… -
Image 23 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 18 VOYAGE DOWN THE AMOOE of both these rivers where during the fair is exhibited a picture of human life unparalleled in any other portion of the globe Here is then seen… -
Image 24 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … NIJNENOVGORODTHE GREAT FAIR 19 the city though less from the outskirts to which it is in fact united by a long and wide bridge of boats across the Oka and a line… -
Image 25 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 20 VOYAGE DOWN THE AMOOE patetic Punch to be heard no quack dentist to pull teeth and dispense his nostrums The fair of Nijni is not an idle holiday meeting but a… -
Image 26 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … NIJNENOVGOKODTHE GEEAT FAIK 21 front by thousands of cast iron columns where purchasers can walk about well sheltered in all kinds of weather and make purchases or gossip as they feel disposed… -
Image 27 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 22 VOYAGE DOWN THE AHQOB surrounded by every species of bariron palisades pots agricultural and other instruments The outskirts in which most of the foregoing I articles are sold is by far… -
Image 28 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … CHAPTEE IY FROM NIJNE TO EKATEKINBUHG Oapt Anakoff whom we had found a very pleasant companion parted from us here on his way to visit his friends further to the south So… -
Image 29 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 24 VOYAGE DOWN THE AMOOK this arrangement which we owed to the kindness of Gen eral MouraviefF After a hearty warm supper and plentiful cups of tea our podorojnaya having been despatched… -
Image 30 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … FROM NIJNE TO EKATERINBURG 25 only guide they had was to avoid the blacklooking places where the water was upon the ice At length one runner of our sleigh broke through and… -
Image 31 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 26 VOYAGE DOWN THE AMOOR distant where we fortified ourselves with several cups of hot tea which revived us very much We dashed along through many towns and villages over a comparatively… -
Image 32 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … FROM NIJNE TO EKATERINBURG 27 in contact with the woodwork in the jolts and thumps we received in rough parts of the road We added also to our wardrobe Kazan sheepskin coats… -
Image 33 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 28 VOYAGE DOWN THE AMOOK track like a miniature frozen sea with the waves frozen just as they were under the lash of the winds The most of the way between Kazan… -
Image 34 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … FROM NIJNE TO EKATERINBURG 29 jammed and confined to the least possible space A trunk lashed on the front part was filled with useless trash pur chased in Moscow taken from the… -
Image 35 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … CHAPTEE Y FROM EKATERINBURG TO OMSK We reached Ekaterinburg on the 16th December 1856 on the thirteenth day out from Moscow not having as yet slept in a house on the road… -
Image 36 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … FROM EKATERINBURG TO OMSK 31 fish and vegetables We laid in a supply of fresh fish quails and white bread for the road at reasonable prices and our friends did not forget… -
Image 37 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 32 VOYAGE DOWN THE AMOOR The descent of the Ural is so easy and regular that with hut little grading a railroad track would take the place of the present postroad as… -
Image 38 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … FROM EKATERINBURG TO OMSK 33 transit trade and hence its growth in importance and population Tobolsk formerly monopolized the entire transit of the eastern trade The weather had not as yet been… -
Image 39 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … 34 VOYAGE DOWN THE AMOOB the main western branch of the Oby and a southern branch of the Irtish this is a prolongation of the great Kirgeese Steppe the road was well… -
Image 40 of A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental … FROM EKATERINBURG TO OMSK 35 came regularly to villages where we obtained horses and again sped merrily on The road was often narrow and the snow outside of the tracks was deep…
About this Item
Title
- A voyage down the Amoor: with a land journey through Siberia, and incidental notices of Manchooria, Kamschatka, and Japan.
Names
- Collins, Perry McDonough, 1813-1900.
Created / Published
- New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1860.
Headings
- - Siberia (Russia)--Description and travel
- - Amur River (China and Russia)
Notes
- - A later edition, 1864, has title: Overland explorations in Siberia, northern Asia, and the great Amoor River country.
Medium
- 2 p. l., 390 p. 4 pl. (incl. front.) 20 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- DK755 .C71
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 05014113
OCLC Number
- 709129
Online Format
- image
- online text