A shooting trip to Kamchatka . WATCHING A SHOAL OF SALMON. alono; the furthermost northern coast, thouQ-h the soilwas supposed to be auriferous and similar to that roundthe newly discovered Cape Nome washings in we stood by the salmon trap fixed across thestream, at that part barely eight yards broad, we wereall amazed at the (juantity of fish coming up in shoals, FISH TRAP AT KLUCHI 255 rising one over the other in a compact mass. Thekrasjiaia, whose shining- violet backs we could easilydistinguish, owing to the clearness of the water, keptpushing each other on, forming a regular up
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . WATCHING A SHOAL OF SALMON. alono; the furthermost northern coast, thouQ-h the soilwas supposed to be auriferous and similar to that roundthe newly discovered Cape Nome washings in we stood by the salmon trap fixed across thestream, at that part barely eight yards broad, we wereall amazed at the (juantity of fish coming up in shoals, FISH TRAP AT KLUCHI 255 rising one over the other in a compact mass. Thekrasjiaia, whose shining- violet backs we could easilydistinguish, owing to the clearness of the water, keptpushing each other on, forming a regular up-streamwave, which broke through the opening in the spikes. REMOVING FISH FROM TRAP AT KLUCHI. ready to receive them. Over fifteen hundred fish hadbeen already caught that day, and thousands more wereascending the torrent, filling the trap every few minutes,and o-ivino- work to the men. who had hardly time too-aff them. At least five hundred salmon were thrownout before us in this manner. Other natives, who 256 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA stood on the bank, proceeded to divide the catchbetween the five or six families w^lio owned shares init, by distributing the fish into corresponding woodenpartitions, each of which belonged to one of the familiesof the settlement, in proportion to the number of their
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