Excerpt from A Shooting Trip to Kamchatka: With 113 Illustrations, 5 Photogravures And: Maps In 1897 I devoted six months to a successful expedition on the borders of Siberia and in Mongolia after Ovis ammon, the largest sheep in the world, an account of which I have since published in a volume entitled After Wild Sheep in the Altai and Mongolia. Since then several short trips, one after ibex in the Sierra Nevada, another to the Kouban district of the Caucasus and to the Galician Carpathians, and a third to Sardinia after moufflon, left my longings for pursuit of game in more remote regions still unsatisfied. Finally, in the autumn of 1899 circumstances once more favoured four months' leave of absence, during which time a good deal might be done. My wife and Mr. St. George Littledale were to be of the party, and in our preliminary councils various suggestions were made. "Let us see; a month or five weeks will take us somewhere (the coveted x of the problem), two months shooting, and a months' journey back. Why not Mombasa? Plenty of cartridges wanted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.