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A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA 



to collect their catch, they lift part of the basket 

 out of water and secure the fish with iron-edged gaffs 

 through a small door at the top. As soon as this 



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operation, repeated several times a day, is finished, 

 the wicker trap is lowered to its fornier position. It 

 was with the greatest interest that we watched the 

 dexterity with which these Kamchadalcs secured their 

 fish ; there must have been at least a couple of hundred 



