The canoe was neatly formed, and reflected favorably upon the skill of its designer.
I boxed it carefully and sent it to Nicolayevsk for shipment to America.
The Ispravnik controlled the district between Habarofka and Sofyesk on both banks of the river, his power extending over native and Russian alike.

He said that this part of the Amoor valley was very fertile, the yield of wheat and rye being fifteen times the seed.

The principal articles cultivated were wheat, rye, hemp, and garden vegetables, and he thought the grain product of 1866 in his district would be thirty thousand poods of wheat and the same of rye.

With a population of fifteen hundred in a new country, this result was very good.
The Goldees do not engage in agriculture as a business.

Now and then there was a small garden, but it was of very little importance.