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A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA 



advance and reducing the speed to ten versts an 

 hour. 



Above the junction of the Sungari River the Amur 

 grows considerably narrower. On the 24th we were 



TYPES ON THE AMUR KIVER. 



met with the good tidings that a dangerous shallow 

 had been safely negotiated during the night, and in 

 the afternoon we entered the gorges of the Khingan, 

 where we had intended to make an attempt after 

 " izubra " stags. One of the passengers informed us 

 that, although the Celestials had been driven back 



