A shooting trip to Kamchatka . A KEAR-SKIN WINDOW. not more than thirty yards wide and about threefeet deep, its current strong. We decided to pitchcamp on the right bank of the river, the village beingsituated on its left, thus keeping at a reasonable dis-tance, and in comparative privacy. A few log-cabins,inhabited by some forty natives, and more fish-drying NATCH IKI 153 sheds than huts, constituted the settlement, a formerCossack os/rqo; or fort. The window-panes of thehabitations, instead of glass, were replaced by bearbladder-skins tightly fitted into the rough framework. -^ ^Y^^l^. A GR
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . A KEAR-SKIN WINDOW. not more than thirty yards wide and about threefeet deep, its current strong. We decided to pitchcamp on the right bank of the river, the village beingsituated on its left, thus keeping at a reasonable dis-tance, and in comparative privacy. A few log-cabins,inhabited by some forty natives, and more fish-drying NATCH IKI 153 sheds than huts, constituted the settlement, a formerCossack os/rqo; or fort. The window-panes of thehabitations, instead of glass, were replaced by bearbladder-skins tightly fitted into the rough framework. -^ ^Y^^l^. A GROUr OF KAMCHADALES AT NATCHIKI. At the time of our arrival the krasi/aia salmon*season was in full swing, and most of the shedsattested adequate supplies for winter. * Oncorhynchus lycaodoti (Pall) is called the krastiaia^ or red fish,because of the dark crimson colour of its flesh. CHAPTER V. The Bolsheretsk valley—Crossing the river—Salmon fishing—Successwith spoon bait—Fifteen fish in an hour—Astonishment of the natives—Their mode of fishing described—Hot sulphur springs—Sara/ui,or native potato—Start for ^lalka through the Natchiki valley—Incessant rain—Tracks of bears—Their lo\e of salmon and mode offishing—Willow grouse first seen—Arrival at Ganal—On the banks ofthe Bystrala—Mosquitoes in myriads—We engage an old nativehunter and his two grandsons—Across the valley of the Bystraiaand the Ganal tundra—Clouds of moscjuitoes—Antlers of caribouon the tundra—Crossing the Bystraia—The Kamchatskaia \ershina,an extinct volcano—Dense brus
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