A shooting trip to Kamchatka . on of the Zeya with the to its position, and chiefly to the discovery ofrich gold mines in the district, the small Cossackpost of Oust-Zeysk, founded in 1854, developed withwonderful rapidity, and soon rose to the position of aflourishing centre. In 1858, after the Treaty of Aigunwith China, it already ranked as a town. Gold at-tracted people in great numbers, and large fortuneswere made in no time. Buildings were erected, trafficspread quickly, facilitated by the two navigable rivers,a parallel case with certain Californian towns, whichsprang up like
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . on of the Zeya with the to its position, and chiefly to the discovery ofrich gold mines in the district, the small Cossackpost of Oust-Zeysk, founded in 1854, developed withwonderful rapidity, and soon rose to the position of aflourishing centre. In 1858, after the Treaty of Aigunwith China, it already ranked as a town. Gold at-tracted people in great numbers, and large fortuneswere made in no time. Buildings were erected, trafficspread quickly, facilitated by the two navigable rivers,a parallel case with certain Californian towns, whichsprang up like mushrooms in days of old on accountof the precious metal in their neighbourhood. At thetime of our visit business had somewhat slackened,though the town had retained its main feature ofluxury. Champagne was to be obtained, but nobeer—local industry had not yet developed, but allEuropean articles were to be found at the two greatrival and opposite stores of Kunst and Albers, andTchurine and Co. 52 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA. THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH AT P. LAGOVES TCHENSK. On the further side of the Amur, which is a mileand a half broad, some distance inland stands theChinese town of Aigun, with a population of over 15,000inhabitants. It was quite a flourishing- place, and littlewe thought that we should find it on our return journeya few months later a heap of smouldering ashes, withRussian sentinels oiiardino- the ruins. The Chinese A CHINESE TOWN 53 War had passed over it like an avenging the landing-place stood all the town officials inshining uniforms assembled to greet M. Isvolsky. Iran to the telegraph office and found a message fromMr. Schwabe informing me that he had secured fiveberths for us on the steamer starting for Kamchatkaon the 14th. There was no time to be lost, but theSiingari was not yet in sight, and only five days re-mained to reach Khabarovsk (over 500 miles) and getover the Ussuri Railway (another 450 miles) to Vladi-vostok. In this emergency M. I
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