The region he controls includes Kamchatka and all the seacoast down to Corea, and has an area of nearly seven hundred and fifty thousand square miles.
He had been only a few months in command, and was busily at work regulating his department.

He spoke English fluently, and was well acquainted with America and American affairs.

During my voyage on the Variag I heard much of the charming manners of Madame Fulyelm, and regretted to learn she was spending the summer in the country.
The machine shops, foundries, and dock-yard are described in Russian by the single word 'port.' I visited the port of Nicolayevsk and found it more extensive than one might expect in this new region.

There were machines for rolling, planing, cutting, casting, drilling, hammering, punching, and otherwise treating and maltreating iron.

There were shops for sawing, planing, polishing, turning, and twisting all sorts of wood, and there were other shops where copper and brass could take any coppery or brassy shape desired.