As our anchor rose and the wheel began to move, most of the deck passengers turned in the direction of the church and devoutly made the sign of the cross.

As we slowly stemmed the current the houses of Nicolayevsk and the shipping in its front, the smoking foundries, and the pine-covered hills, faded from view, and with my face to the westward I was fairly afloat on the Amoor.
The Ingodah was a plain, unvarnished boat, a hundred and ten feet long, and about fifteen feet beam.

Her hull was of boiler iron, her bottom flat, and her prow sharp and perpendicular.

Her iron, wood work, and engines were brought in a sailing ship to the Amoor and there put together.

She had two cabins forward and one aft, all below deck.