200 A SHOOTING IRIP TO KAMCHATKA 



food when snow covers everything several feet deep, 

 is a mystery. There can be no doubt that Ovis nivicola 

 is considerably more plentiful along the coasts, where 

 lift- is made easier for them, both on account of the 

 constant breeze, which blows away mosquitoes in 

 summer and carries off the snow in winter, as well as 

 lor the capital grazing, partly due to the sea salt. The 

 well-known Normandy pres-sales owe their celebrity 

 fh<- ~■^^^^f^ ' ->>--• I am inclined to believe that 

 fcr the sanT- r-'asons, otow 



''n the 



p.eat, we now retfac( d 

 lirection of camp. It was no light 

 !•;;). heavily laden as we were, the General and I, to 

 reascend the ridge ; luckily on the other side we 

 were able to slide down the steep snow -shoots almost 

 ihe whole way back to the place where the ponies 

 awaited us, and reached the tents in : 

 seven p.m. Littledale had already returnt 

 three fair heads, one of which 



inches, the other two being sniuli ii) 



seen these three rams to^rether wmi a iitra ui ten 



