On leaving Mihalofski we took the merchant and two priests and dropped them fifteen miles above, at a village where a church was being dedicated.

The people were in their holiday costume and evidently awaited the priests.

The church was pointed out, nestling in the forest just back of the river bank.

It seemed more than large enough for the wants of the people, and was the second structure of the kind in a settlement ten years old.

I have been told, but I presume not with literal truth, that a church is the first building erected in a Russian colony.
At night we ran until the setting of the moon, and then anchored.