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home. But success had so far not equalled our ex- 

 pectations, and it was not without a feeling of despair 

 that I met next morning the General in company with 



EASY ADVANXE DOWN THE AVATCHA RIVER. 



an inhabitant of Petropavlovsk, named Podprougine, 

 who said that he knew of a neiohbourino- ranee of 

 hills south of Avatcha Bay, where his son had come 

 across sheep in the previous year, and which could 



