A shooting trip to Kamchatka . m ^M: ^aIU II .MONUMENT TO COUNT MUKAXTKlF AT KIIAIJAKOVSK. eicrht , and was due at Vladivostok on the 14th attwo , but it was frequently several hours naturally declined his proposal concerning the START FOR VLADIVOSTOK 6i special, and decided to run the risk of the daily train,which was to bring us to our destination three hoursbefore our boat was to start for Kamchatka. We. A COREAX ON THE USSURI RAILWAY. were running it uncommonly close, and were alreadydiscussing what we should do in the event of ourmissing it. The rest of the day was spent v
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . m ^M: ^aIU II .MONUMENT TO COUNT MUKAXTKlF AT KIIAIJAKOVSK. eicrht , and was due at Vladivostok on the 14th attwo , but it was frequently several hours naturally declined his proposal concerning the START FOR VLADIVOSTOK 6i special, and decided to run the risk of the daily train,which was to bring us to our destination three hoursbefore our boat was to start for Kamchatka. We. A COREAX ON THE USSURI RAILWAY. were running it uncommonly close, and were alreadydiscussing what we should do in the event of ourmissing it. The rest of the day was spent visitingthe town, situated on rolling ground, which impliedconstant up and down hill work for the wretched 62 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA horse. The streets are broad, and the houses mostlylow and wooden. A few brick buildings stood at thetop of the hill, viz. the Government House and theNatural History Museum, which we visited. We werestruck by the number of Chinamen and Coreans, out-numbering the Russian population, which consistschiefly of former convicts. Our cabman, a Caucasianby birth, did not seem in the least embarrassed ingiving us an account of his experiences on the Islandof Sakhalin, where he had stayed over three had been condemned to ten years hard labour forhaving, in a drunken state, stabbed two of his country-men, and his sentence had been mitigated owing tohis oood conduct. He still had f
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