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A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA 



stood on the bank, proceeded to divide the catch 

 between the five or six families w^lio owned shares in 

 it, by distributing the fish into corresponding wooden 

 partitions, each of which belonged to one of the families 

 of the settlement, in proportion to the number of their 





DEALING OUT THE CATCH AT KLUCHI. 



members, men recei\ing twice as much as women. On 

 Sundays and holidays, which are numerous in the 

 Orthodox Church, the traps are lifted by common con- 

 sent, affording the salmon a free passage to the lake 

 where they s[)awn — a necessary measure, with a view to 

 keep up the stock. Littledale tried in vain to get a rise 



