Note 4 — Chapter L · THE USSURI AND SUNGACHA.
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Help came to me once more from the telegraph station—this time in the person of the wife of the manager, and through her I gave the priest some tracts, but he declined to purchase New Testaments, even at a reduced price; at which I was not surprised when he subsequently told me that he occasionally preached to the people for five minutes on Sunday, but that they complained of the sermons as “too long.” What he would not buy, however, the third-class passengers on the barge speedily did, and I then gave some copies to the captain for the use of the passengers of the Sungacha, as I had done to Captain Stjerncreutz for the Onon.