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A SHOOTINCx TRIP TO KAMCHATKA 



hired by the inhabitants for the season, and receiving 

 a few fish in payment. I learned from him the tragic 

 story of his Hfe, which he related in a few broken 



A STAIRCASE AT KLUCHI. 



words. He was a native of Irkutsk, and had left 

 home as a youth, together with a party of com- 

 patriots, enticed by the alliiriiiL; promises of the 

 Government, to seek fortune in Kamchatka, where 



