A floor on these timbers and over the boats serves to keep the hay dry.

Men are stationed at both ends of the boats, and when once in the stream there is little to do beside floating with the current.

A mile distant one of these barges appears like a haystack which an accident has set adrift.
We saw many Gilyak boats descending the river with the current or struggling to ascend it.

The Gilyaks form the native population in this region and occupy thirty-nine villages with about two thousand inhabitants.

The villages are on both banks from the mouth of the river to Mariensk, and out of the reach of all inundations.