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A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA 



other ships lay in the harbour. One of them was a 

 Russian steamer of the Imperial Navy, the Yakut, 

 bound for Providence Bay, in order to keep off the 

 American prospectors from intruding on the newly 

 discovered gold fields, and come to the rescue of a 



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THE INNliR HAKHOUK, I'ETROrAVI.OVSK. 



recently fitted out Russian mining expedition. Another 

 was the s.s. Albatross, an American ship on a scientific 

 mission ; the third one being a small schooner, the 

 Storoj\ belonging to the Russian Seal Fisheries Co., 

 and formerly confiscated from its American owners 

 for unlawful otter-huntine aloncr the coasts of Kam- 



