Note 9 — Chapter L · THE USSURI AND SUNGACHA.
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It is said that during the floods, when the Ussuri becomes a series of lakes connected by shallows, the traveller can with his hands, in spawning time, lift off salmon by the dozen from the banks, and in certain confined places may even hear the rippling of the water caused by their fins. The turtles in the Sungacha are eaten by the natives, but not by the Russians. They lay their eggs on the margins of the stream, and one of our crew amused himself by shooting the animals as they basked in the sun.