Note 1 — Chapter L · THE USSURI AND SUNGACHA.

At all of these places I distributed tracts or sold my books, some of the latter at a shilling each; but the people purchased them so readily that I had not a sufficient supply. In this work I had a willing helper in Captain Stjerncreutz, who in his university days had learned a little English from a lady at Helsingfors. At our stopping-places he usually became the medium through whom I gave a bundle of books to the local priest, to be distributed to the Russians. Some of these priests worked also as missionaries to the Gilyaks. I met one at Tyr, and another, Peter Logimof, at Mikhailofsk. The last told me he had baptized 200 aborigines in seven years.