A shooting trip to Kamchatka . MONUMENT TO BEHRING (PETROrAVLOVSK). parative ease of their owners. The main streetruns unevenly parallel to the shore ; a few woodenplanks obviate the necessity for wading through themud. It is adorned by the presence of two store-houses, one of them belonging to the Russian Seal 96 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA Fisheries Co. (formerly the Alaska Commercial Co.),the other being that of a wealthy tradesman, Rousan-off by name, who had spent over thirty years inKamchatka, and had accumulated a large fortuneby a steady exchange of penny articles for costly. CROSS ON
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . MONUMENT TO BEHRING (PETROrAVLOVSK). parative ease of their owners. The main streetruns unevenly parallel to the shore ; a few woodenplanks obviate the necessity for wading through themud. It is adorned by the presence of two store-houses, one of them belonging to the Russian Seal 96 A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA Fisheries Co. (formerly the Alaska Commercial Co.),the other being that of a wealthy tradesman, Rousan-off by name, who had spent over thirty years inKamchatka, and had accumulated a large fortuneby a steady exchange of penny articles for costly. CROSS ON THE GRAVE OF RUSSIANS KILLED IN ACTIONAUGUST, 1854. sable or blue fox skins. At the head of the streetstands the summer church with its blue painted top,whilst opposite is the winter church, a low earthenbuilding, which can be heated during the long coldmonths. In the churchyard stands a monument toJ)ehring, above his grave, and a little further, enclosed GRAVES AT PETROPAVLOVSK 97 by an iron railing, are the three crosses erected to thememory of the Russians, EngHsh, and French whowere killed in action at the siege of Petropavlovsk in1S54. The following are the inscriptions :— Rnss/au Cross.—? To the memory of the fallen at therepulse of the attack of the Anglo-French, August 24th,1854. Peace to }-our remains. English Cross.— In memor} of the officers, seamen, andmarines killed in action, August, 1854, at Egeria, 1877. French Cross.—A la memoire des marins francais tues aucombat de Petropaulowski, le 24 Aout, 1854, and on the tomb-stone : A la
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