Hunting in Many Lands 



formerly a much less expensive luxury to a 

 proprietor than now, and to this fact is due 

 the decline of the combined kennel in Russia. 



This hunt is more or less practised through- 

 out the entire extent of the Russian Empire. 

 In the south, where the soil is not boggy, it is 

 far better sport than in Northern Russia, where 

 there are such enormous stretches of marshy 

 woods and tundra. Curiously enough, nearly 

 all the game of these northern latitudes, in- 

 cluding moose, wolves, hares, and nearly all 

 kinds of grouse and other birds, seem to be 

 found in the marshiest places — those almost 

 impracticable to mounted hunters. 



Though the distances covered in hunting, 

 and also in making neighborly visits in Russia, 

 are vast, often recalling our own broad West- 

 ern life, yet in few other respects are any simi- 

 larities to be traced. This is especially true of 

 Russia north of the Moscow parallel ; for in 

 the south the steppes have much in common 

 with the prairies, though more extensive, and 

 the semi-nomadic Cossacks, in their mounted 

 peregrinations and in their pastoral life, have 

 many traits in common with real Americans. 

 Nor is it true of the Caucasus, where it would 

 seem that the Creator, dissatisfied with the 



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