Note 8 — Chapter XLV · THE LOWER AMUR.

Mr. Collins speaks of excavations, or pits, within and without the remains of a wall, and mentions also his finding the monuments decorated with wreathed garlands of finely-worked splint, or the stripping of a tree, bound together at intervals with willow twigs. The bases of the monuments also were dressed with shavings of wood, worked to represent flowers, thickly planted around in the earth. These he conjectured to have been, as they probably were, offerings of the natives, who still use the place, I understood, for Shamanistic practices.