Note 11 — Chapter XLVI · THE GILYAKS.

Manchu and Chinese merchants met Japanese from Sakhalin, Tunguses from the Okhotsk coast, and from the head waters of the Zeya and Amgun. Besides these were the Orochi, or Orochons, from the mountains east of the Lower Amur, and Manguns; to say nothing of smaller tribes, speaking nearly a dozen languages, and conducting business in a patois of all the dialects. The goods imported were coarsely printed calicoes, Chinese silk materials, rice and millet, also bracelets, earrings, tobacco and brandy, cloth, powder, lead, and knives. These were exchanged for furs, isinglass, and the dried backbones of the sturgeon—the last being highly prized in Chinese cookery.