At the Russian village of Gorin there was an Ispravnik who had charge of a district containing nineteen villages with about fifteen hundred inhabitants.

At Gorin the river is two or three miles wide, and makes a graceful bend.

We landed near a pile of ash logs awaiting shipment to Nicolayevsk.

The Ispravnik was kind enough to give me the model of a Goldee canoe about eighteen inches long and complete in all particulars.

It was made by one Anaka Katonovitch, chief of an ancient Goldee family, and authorized by the emperor of China to wear the uniform of a mandarin.