Note 2 — Chapter XLIV · THE PRIMORSK OR SEA-COAST PROVINCE.

Thus there are, beginning in the south, Vladivostock and Paseat, and continuing up the Manchurian coast past Olga, Vladimir, and Barracouta Bays, we have De Castries Bay, 135 miles south of Nikolaefsk. De Castries was discovered and surveyed by La Perouse in 1787. It affords good and safe anchorage, and is a kind of ocean port to Nikolaefsk. Other ports further north are Ayan and Okhotsk, and Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka, Olga, Vladivostock, and Paseat are called “open ports,” but all of them in winter are ice-bound, unless it be Paseat, which is not much frozen, nor for long.