A shooting trip to Kamchatka . A LOCAL TYPE (Xl 1.\SK). following da\ in celebration of the fiftieth anniversaryof the foundation of the settlement by Admiral Nevel-skoy. The colonel, who was president of the Club,invited us to that grand repast, but I declined the honour,. c^- A NATIVE OF :\>.K. CONVICTS 281 alleging the presence of my wife and lack of anythinglike dress clothes. Next morning our encampment wassurrounded by an inquisitive crowd, which throngedclose to our tents, occasionally peeping in, and makingus feel most uncomfortable, especially as the greaterpart of th
A shooting trip to Kamchatka . A LOCAL TYPE (Xl 1.\SK). following da\ in celebration of the fiftieth anniversaryof the foundation of the settlement by Admiral Nevel-skoy. The colonel, who was president of the Club,invited us to that grand repast, but I declined the honour,. c^- A NATIVE OF :\>.K. CONVICTS 281 alleging the presence of my wife and lack of anythinglike dress clothes. Next morning our encampment wassurrounded by an inquisitive crowd, which throngedclose to our tents, occasionally peeping in, and makingus feel most uncomfortable, especially as the greaterpart of the people had already paid no slight attentionto the bottle, in commemoration of the forthcominglocal solemnity. Being unable to rid ourselves of thatthirsty lot, we applied for assistance to the colonel, whoobligingly sent a couple of soldiers to disperse the were, moreover, informed that the place we hadchosen was by no means a safe one, on account ofescaped convicts, who frequently came over fromSakhalin, as well as gold-prospecting adventurers, whogathered from all parts of Siberia. Only lately a partyof five convicts had managed to cross the straits, withthe aid of native Ainos, after having murdered theirguardians, and were still at large. In consequence oneof
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