A shooting trip to Kamchatka (1904) (14595853908)

Identifier: shootingtriptoka00demi (find matches)

Title: A shooting trip to Kamchatka

Year: 1904 (1900s)

Authors: Demidov, Elim Pavlovich, principe di San Donato, b. 1867

Subjects: Hunting -- Russia (Federation) Kamchatka Peninsula Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) -- Description and travel

Publisher: London : R. Ward, Ltd.

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA t;v mt !; about, who stood laughing at his helplessness, ,(i ;. vertheless complied with the little Chinamans wishes. The following days long march was to bring us at last to Ganal. The scenery was similar to that of preceding days : the road winding through birch and poplar woods, with thick undergrowth of tall grass ail here and there a few cedars would inter- mity f the country, and in open spaces g fforded a pi ea- rn w ,1 i ,.... I. , •■ ,iing the tundra > .. . ar right rose the so-called Gandl- ., - jstriaki, or Aiguilles, rows of sharp-edged vol-canic crags, which were as yet invisible on account ofthe prevailing mist. We could just surmise the exist-ence of a loftier range, bordering the eabithe valley from the steep gullies sweeping dojlrtly, filled with last winters snows. At !\er end ran parallela lower range -;•: ith broad plateaux, which we could erceive to

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THE BYSTRAIA RIVER 169 the west. After crossing a wood of high poplars wefound ourselves, at about five p.m., on the banks ofthe Bystraia, opposite Ganal, and encamped on marshycrround amono- the willow bushes which hung over

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