A shooting trip to Kamchatka . ry, where he said izubrastags were plentiful, besides tiger, roedeer, musk-deer(native /ada/j^a), wild sheep (?), and to our profoundastonishment, aurochs. The two last-named speciesstruck us as being so imlikely to be found in theseregions, that we naturally expressed our surprise atsuch unexpected tidings, upon which M. Hedenstrom,whom we thenceforth called Daddy (short forHakodadi). volunteered to wire to the king ofhunters, a Cossack named Lalitin, to meet us atHlagovestchensk and contu^m his somewhat startlingstatements. P)Oth Littledale and I assented to hi
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . ry, where he said izubrastags were plentiful, besides tiger, roedeer, musk-deer(native /ada/j^a), wild sheep (?), and to our profoundastonishment, aurochs. The two last-named speciesstruck us as being so imlikely to be found in theseregions, that we naturally expressed our surprise atsuch unexpected tidings, upon which M. Hedenstrom,whom we thenceforth called Daddy (short forHakodadi). volunteered to wire to the king ofhunters, a Cossack named Lalitin, to meet us atHlagovestchensk and contu^m his somewhat startlingstatements. P)Oth Littledale and I assented to hisproposal and the telegram was desj)atched forthwith. After having crossed the (Jb, whence we had branchedoff three years before on our way to the .Altai and CROSSING THE OB 31 Mongolia, we entered the so-called Central SiberianRailway, and some two hundred versts beyond, closeto the station of Taiga, found ourselves in the midstof dense woods, which in Siberia bear the name oflaioa. I need hardly say we quitted without regret. TYPE OF EN(;iNE OX THE TRANS-SI BEKIAX RAILWAY. those endless steppes of the west. The forests con-sisted chiefly of huge larches, birch, fir, and occasionalcedars. At first sight they strongly reminded one ofthe scenery round St. Petersburg. Numbers of treeslay rotting and moss-covered on the marshy ground,others half uprooted by gales leant against theirneighbours in a state of desolation, the underwood 32 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA beino thick and dense. It was evident that no humanhand had ever attempted to preserve them. The trainseemed to cut its way through at the modest speed offifteen miles an hour. At one of the stations we werecompelled to wait over four hours, owing to the factthat the man who looked after the water reservoir
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