. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. CHAP. VI.] BEARS. Ill AVe passed two of the level seas of marshy ground that for lack of a better name I have hitherto called tundras. The term is, strictly speaking, applied only to the vast stretches of ground of tliis nature that are so wearisome to Siberian travellers. Here, however, the only difference lies in the size, and as we have no corresponding English word, I have preferred to reta
. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. CHAP. VI.] BEARS. Ill AVe passed two of the level seas of marshy ground that for lack of a better name I have hitherto called tundras. The term is, strictly speaking, applied only to the vast stretches of ground of tliis nature that are so wearisome to Siberian travellers. Here, however, the only difference lies in the size, and as we have no corresponding English word, I have preferred to retain the Eussian name. The thick forests of birch were no longer to be seen, and the country, though still wooded, was more open, large clearings. BELFRY AT GUXAL. being not infrequent. The familiar monkshood, too, whose spikes of flower are in Kamschatka snowy white, as well as of the ordmary shade of violet that our English gardens exhibit, had almost entirely disappeared, and we saw but little more of it durmg the rest of our journey. The number of bilberries was enormous, but the cranberry was much less abundant, and its berries as yet were hardly ripe. Piiding quietly along in advance of our party, we suddenly came almost upon the top of two very fine bears, with a young cub between them. We were unfortunately without our rifles at the time, and before we could get them the animals had made Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Guillemard, F. H. H. (Francis Henry Hill), 1852-1933. London : J. Murray
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