Miscegenation between black and white races in Africa repulses him, but he views it more permissively when it involves Russians and Siberian aborigines.
By contrast, a German traveler through Siberia around the same time flat-out declared miscegenation between Russians and indigenous people to be a " contamination" of the former.
Views on miscegenation in general, especially between white and black " races, " did not necessarily map onto views on miscegenation as a feature of Russian imperial life.
Examples of miscegenation would be if an African American or black person and a white person got married, or if a Native American and Asian American person got married.