Private steamers pay cash for what they purchase; the captains of the government boats gives vouchers for the wood they take, and these vouchers are redeemed at the end of the season of navigation.

About sixty thousand roubles worth of wood is consumed annually by government, and twelve thousand on private account.
While the boat took wood Borasdine and I resumed our hunting, he carrying a shot-gun and I an opera glass; with this division of labor we managed to bag a single snipe and kill another, which was lost in the river.

My opera glass was of assistance in finding the birds in the grass; they were quite abundant almost within rifle-shot of town, and it seemed strange that the officers of the post did not devote their leisure to snipe hunting.
Our snipe was cooked, for dinner, and equalled any I ever saw at Delmonico's.

We had a wild goose at the same meal, and after a careful trial I can pronounce the Siberian goose an edible bird.

He is not less cunning than wild geese elsewhere, but with all his adroitness he frequently falls into the hands of man and graces his dinner table.
On the northern horizon, twenty or thirty miles from Michael Semenof, there is a range of high and rugged mountains.