A shooting trip to Kamchatka . j^ RKMOVINC. SALMON FROM TKAT (). the implements delivered to them, having probablyremained in the hands of the officials. All theirdemands proved useless. The unfortunate colonistsfell into the utmost poverty, and scattered throughout SALMON STORE 261 the different settlements of the peninsula in search ofemployment. Hoping to find work and means of sub-sistence, the relater of this sad story had left his familyin the north and come to Petropavlovsk, where he hadearned a few roubles. He had then returned to his. PIT IX WHICH SALMON ARE STORED FOR WINTER.
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . j^ RKMOVINC. SALMON FROM TKAT (). the implements delivered to them, having probablyremained in the hands of the officials. All theirdemands proved useless. The unfortunate colonistsfell into the utmost poverty, and scattered throughout SALMON STORE 261 the different settlements of the peninsula in search ofemployment. Hoping to find work and means of sub-sistence, the relater of this sad story had left his familyin the north and come to Petropavlovsk, where he hadearned a few roubles. He had then returned to his. PIT IX WHICH SALMON ARE STORED FOR WINTER. home in the neighbourhood of the Tolbachinsky vol-cano, and had found his log- cabin nailed up. Duringhis absence both his wife and children had died ofstarvation ! Penniless and without family or a roofover his head, he was now destined in his old aq-e tolead a wanderino- life. It was all ri^ht, he added, when 262 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA the summer fisheries yielded work, but when lonofwinter months would come on, findini^- him withoutfood or shelter, then in truth life would become aburden to him, and he had often longed for death toput an end to his misery. We rode back to the shores of Tareinska inlet,where we were met by the launcli which awaited luggage was soon on board, and, crossing thebay, we reached Petropavlovsk late at night, where forthe last time I found myself encamped on the edge ofthe monument. The Tsitsikar had by this time almostfinished unloading its cargo, and was to start in twodays for Nikolaievsk. We spent
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