A shooting trip to Kamchatka . PETROPAVLO\SK 103 so prodioally supplied with sea-otters, when one oftheir principal haunts yields but fourteen skinsannually at the utmost. We learnt from a clerk ofthe Seal Fisheries stores that the entire populationof Petropavlovsk had been on foot that winter for. SIDE VIEW OK PETROPAVLOVSK. more than two months, with all the Winchestersand cartridges that could be mustered in the place,in pursuit of a couple of blue foxes which had takenup their abode in the proximity of the village, butthat all attempts to secure them had proved shop of the Co
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . PETROPAVLO\SK 103 so prodioally supplied with sea-otters, when one oftheir principal haunts yields but fourteen skinsannually at the utmost. We learnt from a clerk ofthe Seal Fisheries stores that the entire populationof Petropavlovsk had been on foot that winter for. SIDE VIEW OK PETROPAVLOVSK. more than two months, with all the Winchestersand cartridges that could be mustered in the place,in pursuit of a couple of blue foxes which had takenup their abode in the proximity of the village, butthat all attempts to secure them had proved shop of the Company seemed to us fairly well I04 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA provided with utensils of every kind, and canned meatsand fruit, mostly of American produce; before startingfor the interior we took in a large supply of tinnedfruit, which turned out a great success. At the backof the hamlet there is a small hos[)ital ; we made thedoctors acquaintance on our return jrjurney. He wasone of the successors of the welbknown Dr. Dybovsky,who had lived many years in this inhos|)itable Dybovsky, a naturalist of world-wide tame, hadbeen form.^rly imprisoned in Siberia for joining in thePolish rebellion of 1S64, and having served his time,had been sent to Kamchatka as Government ha
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