A shooting trip to Kamchatka . A FORD OX THE BYSTRAIA RIVER. the stream, carefully avoiding closer proximity tothe inhabitants and the village green praised byDr. Guillemard. The hamlet is situated at an alti-tude of about eight hundred feet above sea-level, and,though somewhat larger than Natchiki, could hardlyboast of its size, for the population consisted of eighty I70 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA souls with a corresponding- number of log-huts andfish-sheds, together with a small church visited two orthree times a year by the nearest priest, who lived atMilkovo and whose parish was distribu
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . A FORD OX THE BYSTRAIA RIVER. the stream, carefully avoiding closer proximity tothe inhabitants and the village green praised byDr. Guillemard. The hamlet is situated at an alti-tude of about eight hundred feet above sea-level, and,though somewhat larger than Natchiki, could hardlyboast of its size, for the population consisted of eighty I70 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA souls with a corresponding- number of log-huts andfish-sheds, together with a small church visited two orthree times a year by the nearest priest, who lived atMilkovo and whose parish was distributed over severalhundred square miles. Here we found another fishery. THE GANAL RANGE. dam across the stream, though the supplies as yet laidin for winter were not so important as at Natchiki, forthe fish were only just arriving. A magnificent forty-pound tcJiaiycha. still alive, was brought in for ourevening meal. The inhabitants of Cianal belong tothe same Russo-Kamchadale breed as at Natchiki, MOSQUITOES 171 and were of the lowest grade of intellect we hadhitherto met with. The river current at Ganal isunusually rapid, as indeed its name denotes (torBystraia in Russian means swift), and no wider thanthe Bolshaia at Natchiki. The water is clear andshallow, and separating there into several channels,forms two or three small islands. Here mosquitoes
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