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the different settlements of the peninsula in search of 

 employment. Hoping to find work and means of sub- 

 sistence, the relater of this sad story had left his family 

 in the north and come to Petropavlovsk, where he had 

 earned a few roubles. He had then returned to his 



PIT IX WHICH SALMON ARE STORED FOR WINTER. 



home in the neighbourhood of the Tolbachinsky vol- 

 cano, and had found his log- cabin nailed up. During 

 his absence both his wife and children had died of 

 starvation ! Penniless and without family or a roof 

 over his head, he was now destined in his old aq-e to 

 lead a wanderino- life. It was all ri^ht, he added, when 



