A shooting trip to Kamchatka (1904) (14596001297)

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

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olcanic pinnacles, some 5,000 feet high, with pre-cipitous snow-slides shooting down the gullies betweenthem. They ran westward of the main peak, andappeared to be first-rate ground for sheep. A distance of about six miles as yet intervened, andit took us at least three hours before we reached themore abrupt slopes of the towering crags. As wewere preparing for the last scramble I spied a largebear some lour hundred yards above us. As Iwatched him through the glass, digging the earthand slowly advancing at right angles from us, hiscoat seemed unusually light in colour, almost white.As he was on our way, I suggested a stalk, and, hidingfrom view, followed a lateral ravine in his direction.Unfortunately, on reaching the commanding ridge,alder bushes, on which we counted for concealment,had l)ecome scarce, and further advance in the openwould have involved certain failure. Ihuin was nowtwo hundred and fifty yards off, and as he appearedto have no intention of comino- anv nearer, I had to

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jyj^ Ajyj^^LA ;AX UI.D KAMI. A WOUNDED BEAR 193 take my chance. Out of five consecutive shots, thefifth at least reached its destination, for the beast,which had remained motionless, as if thunder-strickenby the cracks of the rifle, emitted a loud roar, andpelted downhill to my right into patches of densebrushwood, where we could locate him by the wavingof the branches above him, as he forced his waythrough. Though we found blood on his tracks, hewas strong enough to pursue his course through thethicklv entangled scrub, in the midst of which itwould be a dangerous matter to tackle a woundedbear. The rifie was of no avail, and the Generalproposed to abandon a chase which involved suchrisk. Time being precious. I agreed to this wisesuggestion, and reluctantly leaving the animal to itsunhappy fate, proceeded to climb a perpendicularslope towards the left ridge of the valley, alongwhich we journeyed to a low saddle, where we settledclown to spy. There mosquitoes again gathered roundus in

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