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A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA 



a laree bear skin. That day's bao- thus amounted 

 to four sheep and four bears. Littledale had come 

 across the sheep on the higher ridges, where they had 

 probably betaken themselves to seek comparativ'e pro- 

 tection from the mosquitoes. He had only spied the 



OUR FIRST day's BAG AT VERSHINA (I'OUR SHEEP AND FOUR BEARs). 



four rams he had shot as well as a couple of ewes, 

 and, though our success seemed promising, he did not 

 think that, with the exception of bears, game was 

 plentiful in the district. Moreover, he said that sheep 

 in these parts, unaccustomed as they were to human 

 presence, were too tame to afford sport, and would let 



