Note 6 — Chapter XLV · THE LOWER AMUR.

This lake seems to be an overflow from the river, which here divides into several channels, and looks as if one day in the remote past it would fain have ended its wanderings, and turned off eastwards through the sea-coast range into Castries Bay. The distance from the head of the Kizi Lake to Castries Bay is only 8½ miles. The lake occupies an area of 93 square miles, being 25 miles long and 12 broad. Of the two islets in the lake, one is a rock about 50 feet in diameter. The crevices are full of fox-holes, and the Gilyaks regard it as sacred, assembling there from time to time for their Shaman rites.