A shooting trip to Kamchatka (1904) (14596010077)

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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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OTING IRIP TO KAMCHATKA food when snow covers everything several feet deep,is a mystery. There can be no doubt that Ovis nivicolais considerably more plentiful along the coasts, wherelift- is made easier for them, both on account of theconstant breeze, which blows away mosquitoes insummer and carries off the snow in winter, as well aslor the capital grazing, partly due to the sea salt. Thewell-known Normandy pres-sales owe their celebrityfh>--• I am inclined to believe thatfcr the sanT- r-asons, otow n the p.eat, we now retfac( dlirection of camp. It was no light!•;;). heavily laden as we were, the General and I, toreascend the ridge; luckily on the other side wewere able to slide down the steep snow-shoots almostihe whole way back to the place where the poniesawaited us, and reached the tents in :seven p.m. Littledale had already returntthree fair heads, one of which inches, the other two being sniuli ii) seen these three rams to^rether wmi a iitra ui ten

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AMUSING ADVENTURE 201 ewes on the top of a high ridge, west of the Kam-chatskaia Vershina. He said he might have baggedthe lot, for they all stood about five minutes roundhim after his shots ; he availed himself of the oppor-tunity to secure one of the ewes, whose skin andbones he brought back for the British Museum. An amusinof adventure befell him that dav. Whileclimbing a slope with his hunter, they suddenly met

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