Note 3 — Chapter XLII · THE MIDDLE AMUR.

I wrote also to General Kaznakoff, the Governor-General of Western Siberia, at Omsk, requesting that the Scriptures, which I had arranged for the interpreter to take to Tiumen to be forwarded thence, might be distributed through the provinces of Akmolinsk and Semipolatinsk; so that, with what I hoped to do in the Sea-coast province, I began to look upon my plans for the supply of the Siberian prisons as all but completed. The boxes containing these books did not reach Tiumen till the autumn; they were some time on the road to Omsk; but when I last heard of them, they had reached their destination, and were about to be distributed.