A shooting trip to Kamchatka . A STAIRCASE AT KLUCHI. words. He was a native of Irkutsk, and had lefthome as a youth, together with a party of com-patriots, enticed by the alliiriiiL; promises of theGovernment, to seek fortune in Kamchatka, where AN OLD FISHERxMAN 259 each colonist was to be supplied with horses, cows,and necessary agricultural implements for , each family was to receive 500 roubles. AN OLD FISHERMAN AT KLUCHI. (^50) for the journey. Vast areas of land were tobe liberally allotted them for farming purposes, andfor the first seven years they were to be free
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . A STAIRCASE AT KLUCHI. words. He was a native of Irkutsk, and had lefthome as a youth, together with a party of com-patriots, enticed by the alliiriiiL; promises of theGovernment, to seek fortune in Kamchatka, where AN OLD FISHERxMAN 259 each colonist was to be supplied with horses, cows,and necessary agricultural implements for , each family was to receive 500 roubles. AN OLD FISHERMAN AT KLUCHI. (^50) for the journey. Vast areas of land were tobe liberally allotted them for farming purposes, andfor the first seven years they were to be free from allGovernment duties and taxes. Twenty-five familieshad responded to this appeal, and, having sold all their 26o A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA belongings, emigrated to Kamchatka, where theysettled down in the interior. But corn would notgrow, and neither the promised money was paid nor
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