Excerpt from The Princess of Alaska: A Tale of Two Countries; A Novel While not desiring to in uence Count Fersen, who personally represents the Emperor, I have prepared a report on the military situation of the day, which I desire you all to hear.-if any commander can offer aught of value, I request his written report, forthwith, to be handed to my Adjutant who will afford you every facility. Count Fersen will proceed at once up the Amur to Irkutsk, and thence, homeward, overland. I desire the utmost ceremony, courtesy and cordiality ob served towards his party. Each of you will be under his extraordinary orders. At a sign from the General, Fedor Orlof arose and calmly read the report which had been the harvest of his three years of convict life. Besides the military situ ation, he had added a commercial and sociological summary, with exhaustive remarks upon the gold fields and mines of that great unspoiled treasure region, the upper Amur. Murmurs of admiration attested the approbation of the man of rank, now eager to express their attery of the Commander's able report! The mute convict held his peace, standing in prison garb, his eyes downcast! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."