I arranged to ascend the Amoor on the steamer Ingodah, which was appointed to start on the eighteenth of September.

My friend Anossoff remained at Nicolayevsk during the winter, instead of proceeding to Irkutsk as I had fondly hoped.

I found a _compagnon du voyage_ in Captain Borasdine, of General Korsackoff's staff.

In a drenching rain on the afternoon of the seventeenth, we carried our baggage to the Ingodah, which lay half a mile from shore.

We reached the steamer after about twenty minutes pulling in a whale-boat and shipping a barrel of water through the carelessness of an oarsman.
At Nicolayevsk the Amoor is about a mile and a half wide, with a depth of twenty to thirty-five feet in the channel.