They waved their hands up the stream as if urging us to go ahead and say they were coming.

The one reclining was a venerable personage, with a thin beard fringing a sedate visage, into which he drew long whiffs and comfort from a Chinese pipe.
These boats were doubtless from Kirin or San-Sin, on their way to Igoon.

The voyage must be a tedious one to any but a Mongol, much like the navigation of the Mississippi before the days of steam-boats.

In spite of the great advantages to commerce, the Manjours resisted to the last the introduction of steam on the Amoor just as they now oppose it on the Songaree.
[Illustration: MANJOUR BOAT.] In the language of the natives along its banks the Amoor has several names.

The Chinese formerly called the Songaree 'Ku-tong,' and considered the lower Amoor a part of that stream.