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A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA 



inhabited those regions, though they had seen none, 

 but had picked up the skull of one at the foot of the 

 hills. I was also informed by him that they had met 

 a Russo-American gold-prospecting expedition under 

 M. Bogdanovitch, who had as yet failed to strike ore 







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WATCHING A SHOAL OF SALMON. 



alono; the furthermost northern coast, thouQ-h the soil 

 was supposed to be auriferous and similar to that round 

 the newly discovered Cape Nome washings in Alaska. 

 As we stood by the salmon trap fixed across the 

 stream, at that part barely eight yards broad, we were 

 all amazed at the (juantity of fish coming up in shoals, 



