Note 9 — Chapter XXXIX · THE HISTORY OF THE AMUR.

The newly-acquired territory, moreover, was not fulfilling the anticipations of those who thought to find at once the country turned into the granary of Siberia, and supplying with its produce and manufactures the navies of the world. The Amur was a source of continual expenditure, and the Cossacks were not proving the best of colonists. To remedy this, German colonists had been sent for. My old host, with whom I stayed at Vladivostock, Captain De Vries, was to bring 40 German families from California, who were to be settled at the mouth of the Bureya; but, as he told me, he found the thing impracticable.