A shooting trip to Kamchatka . h fatal results. If one considersthat there are not more than 8,000 inhabitants in thewhole district, it means that ten per cent, had beencarried off; that illness, he said, was chiefly fatal togrown-up people, and was not so deadly to still existed in the country, and were isolatedin a small settlement called Nikolaievsk, south ofAvatcha Bay. They all lived together in theirdoomed enclosure, forgotten by the rest of the world,and abandoned by their families, who dared not ap-proach them. He told us that last winter had been avery severe one, and
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . h fatal results. If one considersthat there are not more than 8,000 inhabitants in thewhole district, it means that ten per cent, had beencarried off; that illness, he said, was chiefly fatal togrown-up people, and was not so deadly to still existed in the country, and were isolatedin a small settlement called Nikolaievsk, south ofAvatcha Bay. They all lived together in theirdoomed enclosure, forgotten by the rest of the world,and abandoned by their families, who dared not ap-proach them. He told us that last winter had been avery severe one, and that there had been unusuallyheavy snowfalls, traces of which could still be seenon the comparatively low hills. He did not seem toknow much on the subject of sport, though he thought 94 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA wild sheep were plentiful all along the coast. Thepath into the interior was as yet impracticable, and hestrongly advised us to wait, promising to muster a fewponies from different villages several miles distant in.
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