A shooting trip to Kamchatka . the hotsprings, and were now at the settlement of accordingly decided to proceed no further that day,and to return to Petropavlosk with my companions. An hour later, on nearing the hamlet, I found a largeparty gathered to watch the miraculous fishing in thesmall stream which fiows out of the lake. BesidesLitdedale and my wife, Tallent was there taking snap-shots, as well as the doctor of the Yakut, who hadreturned from his cruise in the north. This time I wasproud to show my trophies, which were attentivelyexamined by the whole party. The doctor had b
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . the hotsprings, and were now at the settlement of accordingly decided to proceed no further that day,and to return to Petropavlosk with my companions. An hour later, on nearing the hamlet, I found a largeparty gathered to watch the miraculous fishing in thesmall stream which fiows out of the lake. BesidesLitdedale and my wife, Tallent was there taking snap-shots, as well as the doctor of the Yakut, who hadreturned from his cruise in the north. This time I wasproud to show my trophies, which were attentivelyexamined by the whole party. The doctor had broughtback most interesting photographs of the Anadyr andProvidence Bay country, and told me that wild sheep 254 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA inhabited those regions, though they had seen none,but had picked up the skull of one at the foot of thehills. I was also informed by him that they had meta Russo-American gold-prospecting expedition underM. Bogdanovitch, who had as yet failed to strike ore >?>. ,;*•« !***•. 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
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