A shooting trip to Kamchatka . OUR FIRST days BAG AT VERSHINA (IOUR SHEEP AND FOUR BEARs). four rams he had shot as well as a couple of ewes,and, though our success seemed promising, he did notthink that, with the exception of bears, game wasplentiful in the district. Moreover, he said that sheepin these parts, unaccustomed as they were to humanpresence, were too tame to afford sport, and would let WILD SHEEP 189 him come up to them in full view without attemptingto escape ; their ignorance of the rifle and curiosity atthe sight of unknown beings placed them entirely inhis power. I\Iy companio
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . OUR FIRST days BAG AT VERSHINA (IOUR SHEEP AND FOUR BEARs). four rams he had shot as well as a couple of ewes,and, though our success seemed promising, he did notthink that, with the exception of bears, game wasplentiful in the district. Moreover, he said that sheepin these parts, unaccustomed as they were to humanpresence, were too tame to afford sport, and would let WILD SHEEP 189 him come up to them in full view without attemptingto escape ; their ignorance of the rifle and curiosity atthe sight of unknown beings placed them entirely inhis power. I\Iy companion had failed to secure an-other bear at a long range on his way back to HEAD AND SKIN OF OVrS hlVICOLA. morning, accompanied by my faithful Generaland two men, I started before dawn towards one ofthe southern nullahs, with the firm intention of making-straight for the tops, whilst Littledale took an easterndirection with the object of reconnoitring the slopesof the Kamchatskaia Xershina. The night had beenchilly, and the mosquitoes in consequence gave us I90 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA comparative rest as we rode through the woods andentered a fresh valley. The sky was perfectly clear,promising- a fine day. Leaving the horses below thezone of scrub, we found a long, steep ravine, filled withhardened snow, which greatly facilitated our could distinguish at the head of the valley rowsof volcanic pinnacles, some 5,000 feet high, with pre-cipitous snow-slides shooting down the gullies betweenthem. They ran westward of the main peak, andappeared to be first-rate ground for sheep. A distance of about six miles as yet intervened, andit took us a
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