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tives taken, I have carefully selected the clearest and 

 most characteristic ones, believing" that they will fully 

 illustrate the most typical events of our journey and 

 the scenery of Kamchatka, together with the types 

 and mode of living of its inhabitants. Many of these 

 have never been produced before, particularly those 

 connected with the headwaters of the Kamchatka 

 River and the country round its sources, where, until 

 our visit, no human being, save perhaps some stray 

 Lamut, had ever before set foot. Moreover, the 

 sportsman will no doubt be interested in photographs 

 of Oi'is uivico/a, taken as the trophies were brought 

 into camp fresh from the hunting-grounds. Such in- 

 formation as we could gather in London on the subject 

 of Kamchatkan sport was not very important. Dr. 

 Guillemard's interesting account of his experiences on 

 the coast of the peninsula being our sole guide. His 

 journey down the main river from Petropavlovsk to 

 Nijni-Kamchatsk merely gave indications of the only 

 highway of the region, without touching the question 

 of sport to be obtained cii ivulc, and the existence 

 of wild sheep in the mountains of the interior still 

 remained a conjecture. I was, moreover, informed of 

 the difficulty of communication between \dadivostok 

 and Kamchatka, limited to two annual cruises to 

 Petropavlovsk, the ships calling on their return at all 



