CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE IV. 



KAMSCHATKA. 



We leave Japan for Kamscbatka — Constant fogs — Avatcha Bay — Avatchiuska, 

 Koriatska, and Kozelska volcanoes— Beauty of the scenery — Peti'opaulovsky 

 Harbour — The village and its inhabitants — Dr. Dybow.ski — Monuments to 

 Bering, Gierke, and De la Perouse — Defeat of the Allied Forces in 1854 — Graves 

 of the English and French — Sledge-dogs — "We make arrangements for our journey 

 through the country — Village and hot springs of Kluchi . . Page 64 



CHAPTEE V. 



KAMSCHATKA {contimi.cd). 



We begin our journey — Stampede of the packhorses — The effects of vodki — Stari- 

 ostrog — Salmon d, discretion— harge birches — More stampedes — The fur-trade — 

 Prices of skins — On the tilndras — Narchiki — Enormous abundance of salmon- 

 Mortality among the fish — A Kamschatkan interior — Ovis nivicola — Hot springs 

 — Uses of the birch-tree — Kamschatkan ponies — Gunal— Balagans — Sledge-dogs 

 — An Indian summer .... . . Page 86 



CHAPTEE VI. 



KAMSCHATKA (continued). 



Abundance of bears — Ptarmigan — The Paltearctic region — Valley of the Bolcheresk — 

 Arrive at the Kamschatka River — Dense growth of annuals — The sable — Methods 

 of catching it — Puschina — Kamschatkan birds — Verglaski fishes the river — 

 Kamschatkan salmon — The Tchervitchi — Krasna — Haiko — Garbusa — Kisutchi 

 — Gultsi — Other salmon — Habits of bears when fishing — We arrive at Sherowmy. 



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