A shooting trip to Kamchatka . KAMCHATSKAIA VERSHINA. cessant travelling from St. Petersburg! If there wasany justice in the world, surely the time had comefor our reward. Next morning Littledale and Iwere up at three, ready for a start. The clouds haddisappeared, and a clear sky promised a fine companion, with Silly and one of the caravan i8o A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA men as gillie, took the southern nullah, whilst Iproceeded on horseback due east, escorted by theGeneral and one of the Ganal youngsters. I rodefor about an hour up a side valley through denselyentangled brushwood and
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . KAMCHATSKAIA VERSHINA. cessant travelling from St. Petersburg! If there wasany justice in the world, surely the time had comefor our reward. Next morning Littledale and Iwere up at three, ready for a start. The clouds haddisappeared, and a clear sky promised a fine companion, with Silly and one of the caravan i8o A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA men as gillie, took the southern nullah, whilst Iproceeded on horseback due east, escorted by theGeneral and one of the Ganal youngsters. I rodefor about an hour up a side valley through denselyentangled brushwood and tall grass, picking up count-. THE AUTHOR ON THE WAR-IATH AT VEKSHINA. less mosquitoes on the way; I could hear their un-pleasant buzz in the dark as we involuntarily keptshaking them off the bushes in our progress. A lightmist still hung round the hilltops and crept along theslopes when we dismounted at the bottom of a ravine,whence the ponies could go no further. In fact, the IMPASSABLE SCRUB i8i last few hundred yards had to be negotiated bywading in midstream, owing to impassable scrub onboth sides. Leaving- the horses in charge of one of our fol-lowers, we began ascending- the right bank, whichimplied a couple of hours continuous scramblethrough the dense zone of alder, dwarf cedars, andrhododendrons. We kept constantly sliding downthe exposed roots, and one step forward often meanta downshoot of two or three yards. Moreover, theslope was uncommonly steep, at places almost per-pendicular, while the mosquitoes, aroused from theirslumber by our movements, took their revenge, andsatisfied their appetites on our h
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