A shooting trip to Kamchatka . TYPES AT NIKOLAIEVSK. caution. Nikolaievsk, formerly an important navalstation, which was later transferred to Vladivostok, issituated on the left bank of the Amur, and though itcannot comj)ete in commercial power with its youngerrival, yet its position on the coast at the mouth of a NIKOLAIEVSK 273 oreat Asiatic artery affords it a fair amount of , recent discovery of goldfields in the neigh-bourhood, tooether with its inexhaustible sahiion fish-eries, contributes in no sHght degree to the welfare of. TYPES AT NIKOLAIEVSK. the inhabitants, chiefi
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . TYPES AT NIKOLAIEVSK. caution. Nikolaievsk, formerly an important navalstation, which was later transferred to Vladivostok, issituated on the left bank of the Amur, and though itcannot comj)ete in commercial power with its youngerrival, yet its position on the coast at the mouth of a NIKOLAIEVSK 273 oreat Asiatic artery affords it a fair amount of , recent discovery of goldfields in the neigh-bourhood, tooether with its inexhaustible sahiion fish-eries, contributes in no sHght degree to the welfare of. TYPES AT NIKOLAIEVSK. the inhabitants, chiefiy Russian officials, petty trades-men, fishermen, and former Sakhalin convicts. The buildings seemed to us quite luxurious after thelog huts of Kamchatkan settlements. Here againstood in rows quantities of fish stores, where the kcta 2 74 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA {Coiregonus ccta) played the principal part, and wasbeing salted and smoked for exportation in of salmon were ascending- the river at this timeof year, everyone being busy at the fisheries, while netsand traps might be seen all over the gulf. Over ahundred Japanese smacks scoured the bay, hauling outthe fish and carrying it ashore as fast as they fresh information could be obtained here from theagent of the Amur Navigation Company, whom weapproached next morning on the subject of the war, asthe town had been left without any post for the lastmonth ; all available steamers were being stopped atKhabarovsk for pur[)oses of mobilisation. He made,however, a
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