A shooting trip to Kamchatka . e ac-quaintance I made later, had ascended the mountainalmost to the summit four months after the eruption,and obliged me with a most vivid description of hisexperience. I noticed that a strong south-easterlywind blew constantly during the day, from nine toseven , with marvellous regularity; evenings wereperfectly calm. Fogs are almost always brought bysoutherly winds ; north-east winds never fail to bringon storms, and when a hunter talks of the nord-ostthe expression implies the maximum of a rough timeand imminent danger. Numbers of bear skins forsale
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . e ac-quaintance I made later, had ascended the mountainalmost to the summit four months after the eruption,and obliged me with a most vivid description of hisexperience. I noticed that a strong south-easterlywind blew constantly during the day, from nine toseven , with marvellous regularity; evenings wereperfectly calm. Fogs are almost always brought bysoutherly winds ; north-east winds never fail to bringon storms, and when a hunter talks of the nord-ostthe expression implies the maximum of a rough timeand imminent danger. Numbers of bear skins forsale never ceased to strew the thresholds of our price of them—from two to five roubles apiece—was not excessive ; they pointed to the huge size of CARIBOU . 121 the animals, but very few carried dark coats, most ofthem being of an ugly light brown colour. We weretold that thousands of them were annually exported tothe United States and other parts of the globe, andthat we should take plenty of cartridges in store for. ^>A^. OF CARIBOU. bears. I was shown a wonderful pair of caribou hornspicked up by a native in the neighbourhood ; theycarried an unusual number of points, but their lengthwas not remarkable, and as they were bleached andweather-worn I did not acquire them, but was contentto have them photographed by Tallent. 7die night 122 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA before our departure we all dined on board theYakut, whose merry captain treated us royally, andtoasts to each others success were heartily dinner the orchestra was supplemented by ahuge gramophone, whose repcitoire included bothWagnerian airs and music-hall ditties. MadameMelbas voice resounding at Petropavlovsk was nocommon incident. On the following morning (June 25), at ,our flotilla, consisting of four small boats, or shliup-kis, towed by the Ispravniks steam laLuich, startedout of the harbour amid the cheers of the intended that day to camp by the
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