. 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 n. Infact he cannot get along without the reindeer any more than could thenative of Newfoundland exist without the codfish. But I was willing to let the natives have a monopoly of the reindeerfor riding purposes, and took passage in a ship for the Amoor River. The Amoor is the greatest river of Siberia, and flows into the PacificOcean. It is navigable twenty-three hundred miles from its mouth, andreceives several important streams from the
. 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 n. Infact he cannot get along without the reindeer any more than could thenative of Newfoundland exist without the codfish. But I was willing to let the natives have a monopoly of the reindeerfor riding purposes, and took passage in a ship for the Amoor River. The Amoor is the greatest river of Siberia, and flows into the PacificOcean. It is navigable twenty-three hundred miles from its mouth, andreceives several important streams from the south. In one part of itscourse it makes a great bend to the south, where it flows through magnifi-cent forests containing several trees peculiar to the tropics. The tigerroams up to the south bank of the river at this point, and the reindeercomes down to it on the north ; occasionally the tiger crosses the river andfeeds upon the reindeer—the only place in the world where these two ani-mals come together naturally. AVhat a funny idea! exclaimed Frank. To think of tigers inSiberia! Tigers are found elsewliere in Siberia, continued their THE REINDEER. TIGERS IN SIBERIA. 297 In the miiseum at Barnaool, in the Altai Mountains, I saw the skins oftwo hirge tigers that were killed in a Siberian farm-yard not far from thatplace, where they had come to kill one of the farmers oxen. Tiger-hunt-ing is a regular sport with the Russian officers in that part of Manjouriabelonging to Siberia, and over a considerable part of tlie region borderingupon China and Persia. But to return to the Amoor. I remained several days at Xicolayevsk, the capital of the MaritimeProvince of Siberia, and a place of considerable importance. From thereI ascended the river on a Russian steamboat, passing through the country
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