. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across maller towns and villages bothabove and below it. The whole valley of the Amoor was in the possession of the Chineseuntil 1853, when it was conquered by the Russians in a campaign thatlasted less than two months, and was unaccompanied with loss of Mouravieff, then Governor-general of Eastern Siberia, organizedan expedition and sent it down the river in boats. The Chinese werewholly unprepared for it, and the Russians had everyt
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across maller towns and villages bothabove and below it. The whole valley of the Amoor was in the possession of the Chineseuntil 1853, when it was conquered by the Russians in a campaign thatlasted less than two months, and was unaccompanied with loss of Mouravieff, then Governor-general of Eastern Siberia, organizedan expedition and sent it down the river in boats. The Chinese werewholly unprepared for it, and the Russians had everything their own way. HOW THE AMOOR IS FORMED. 303 Then colonists were sent to form the villages I have mentioned, and Rus-sia was so firmly established that she could not be disturbed. And now, as you have doubtless studied the geography of Asia, willyou tell me how the Amoor is formed ? Certainly, answered Fred. It is formed by the rivers Argoon andShilka, just as the Ohio is formed by the Alleghany and Monongahela,The Argoon comes in from the south, and the Shilka from the Khan was born in the valley of the Argoon, and the armies that. ^ /- / . JUNCTION OF THE ARGOON AND SHILKA TO FORM THE AMOOR. went to the Tartar conquest of Europe were originally mustered on thebanks of that stream. The answer is correct, was the reply. The spot where the riversunite is called Oust-strelka ( Arrow-mouth ), owing to the shape of the• tongue of land between the streams. The scenery is interesting, as thebanks of the Argoon are steep, and the hills as far as one can see themare covered to their summits with dense forests. Our steamboat turned into the Shilka, and, after making a few un-important landings, finished its voyage at Stratensk, twenty-three hundred 304 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE EMPIRE. miles above Nicolayevsk. The river voyage was at an end, and from thispoint to St. Petersburg was a hind journey of five thousand miles. Horse-power was to be my mode of conve
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