And yet the country is more thickly populated than upriver, although the pretty Russian isba has given place to the Yakute yurta, a hideous flat-roofed mud-hut, with blocks of ice for window-panes, and yellow-faced weirdly clad inmates, with rough, uncouth manners and the beady black eyes of the Tartar.
"From Paris to New York by Land"
Harry de Windt
Whether I shall find His place for me upriver or whether I shall come back to my own people again, I do not know.
"White Queen of the Cannibals: The Story of Mary Slessor"
A. J. Bueltmann
He set up his tents a mile upriver.
"The White Knight: Tirant lo Blanc"
Joanot Martorell and Marti Johan d'Galba