CHAPTER XLV.

_THE LOWER AMUR._

My plans altered.--A serious alternative.--Khabarofka.--Fur trade.--Post-office and bank.--A Siberian garden.--Started for Nikolaefsk.--The Lower Amur.--Its affluents.--Fish.--A Russian advocate.--Goldi Christians.--Sophiisk.--A procureur.--Lake Kizi.--Mariinsk.--Snow mountains.--Mikhailofsky.--Hot-springs of Mukhal.--Beautiful scenery.--Tyr monuments.--The “white village.”--Mouth of the Amur 574