The peasants that gathered on the bank were better dressed than those of Petrovsky and other villages.

The town is on a plain covered with a scattered growth of oaks.

Below this place the wood furnished us was generally ash or poplar; here it was oak, somewhat gnarly and crooked, but very good for steamboat fuel.

One design of the colonization of the Amoor is to furnish a regular supply of wood to the government steamers.

The peasants cut the wood and bring it to the bank of the river.