A railway has also been proposed, but neither enterprise will be undertaken for many years.

I passed an hour with the post commander, who had just received a pile of papers only two months from St.Petersburg, the mail having arrived the day before.
The steamer Telegraph lay at the landing when we arrived; among her passengers was a Manjour merchant, who possessed an intelligent face, quite in contrast with the sleepy Gilyaks.

He wore the Manjour dress, consisting of wide trowsers and a long robe reaching to his heels; his shoes and hat were Chinese, and his robe was held at the waist with a silk cord.

His hair was braided in the Chinese fashion, and he sported a long mustache but no beard.
[Illustration: MANJOUR MERCHANT.] A few versts above Sofyesk we met a Manjour merchant evidently on a trading expedition.

He had a boat about twenty-five feet long by eight wide, with a single mast carrying a square sail.