A shooting trip to Kamchatka . at last in the handsof the allied troops, who had succeeded in relievingthe Legations after that memorable siege, which willever remain a mystery in the annals of history. Our boat resumed its journey at four Thoughwe had vaguely unpleasant prospects of having toshift over to another steamer some four hundred verstsfurther up-river on account of the sandbanks, yet wehoped to get through without change to Blagovest-chensk. Having started from Khabarovsk on the21 St of August, it was not until the 28th that wesucceeded in reachino- Blagovestchensk—a distance o
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . at last in the handsof the allied troops, who had succeeded in relievingthe Legations after that memorable siege, which willever remain a mystery in the annals of history. Our boat resumed its journey at four Thoughwe had vaguely unpleasant prospects of having toshift over to another steamer some four hundred verstsfurther up-river on account of the sandbanks, yet wehoped to get through without change to Blagovest-chensk. Having started from Khabarovsk on the21 St of August, it was not until the 28th that wesucceeded in reachino- Blagovestchensk—a distance ofsix hundred miles. The weather was fine and un-usually warm the whole way. But few incidents worthrecording broke the monotony of that week on theCentral Amur. Another barge, without horses this time, was inflicted on our steamer, delaying ouru 290 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA advance and reducing the speed to ten versts anhour. Above the junction of the Sungari River the Amurgrows considerably narrower. On the 24th we were. TYPES ON THE AMUR KIVER. met with the good tidings that a dangerous shallowhad been safely negotiated during the night, and inthe afternoon we entered the gorges of the Khingan,where we had intended to make an attempt after izubra stags. One of the passengers informed usthat, although the Celestials had been driven back HALT AT RADDE 291 on every point, yet numerous Chinese maraudingparties still scoured the immediate districts of theinterior, and strongly dissuaded us from carrying outthis hazardous plan. Moreover, he added, it was notimpossible that navigation on the river might be closedby our return, involving for us a long journey toStretensk by land. In consequence we decided toabandon the trip and put it off for another year. As we halted next morning at Radde to take inwood, we were met on the pier by Kobosoff, thehunter who was to have accompanied us, and en-trusted to his care half a dozen cases of stores, withinstructions to keep them till the
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