KAMCHATKA. 



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DOGS FISHING. 



sledge, and will drag with ease three full-grown iiersons, and sixty pounds' 

 Aveight of luggage. When lightly laden, such a sledge will travel from 30 to 

 40 versts in a day over bad roads and through the deep snow ; on even roads, 

 from SO to 140. The horse can never be used for sledging, on account of the 

 deep snow, into which it Avould sink, and of the numerous rivers and sources, 

 which are either never frozen, or merely covered with, a thin sheet of ice, un- 

 able to bear the weight of so iarjxe an animal. 





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DOG-TEAM. 



Travelling with dogs is, however, both dangerous and difficult. Instead of 

 the whip, the Kamchatkans use a crooked stick Avith iron rings, which, by 

 their jingling, give the leader of the team the necessary signals. When the 

 dogs do not sufficiently exert themselves, the stick is cast among them to rouse 

 tlicm to greater speed ; but then the traveller niust be dexterous enough to 



