We subsequently ascertained that the same geese were offered to the steward for half the price we paid.
Just above Petrovsky we passed the steamer Amoor, which left Nicolayevsk a week before us with three barges in tow.

With such a heavy load her progress was very slow.

Barges on the Amoor river are generally built of iron, and nearly as large as the steamers.

They are not towed alongside as on the Mississippi, but astern.

The rope from the steamer to the first barge is about two hundred feet long, and the barges follow each other at similar distances.