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Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.Excerpt from Hunting the Sea Otter In the following pages 1 have endeavoured, from a sporting point of view, to give the reader some account of a hunting cruise among the Kurile Islands in quest of one of the most interesting and, as regards commerce, valuable of all the fur-bearing animals, the sea otter, and to furnish details also as to the method of hunting employed, which will hardly fail to attract attention, as, up to the present time, scarcely a record exists from the pen of an eye-witness. To these will be added such particulars of the haunts and habits of the animal as time and circumstances allowed me to observe. Born on the surface of the heaving ocean and cradled in the tempest, the sea otter only makes its home on such storm-swept waters and inhospitable coasts as almost preclude its pursuit by any but the hardy natives, whose lives have been spent amidst the surroundings of those gloomy regions and who are inured to peril and privation. The great distance from a base of supplies, expensive outfit, and the impossibility of effecting an insurance on the vessel in the event of shipwreck; the total absence, in many cases, of harbours, or, indeed, shelter of any kind, all add to the difficulty of the undertaking, nothing lessened by the shortness of the hunting season and rigorous climate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at 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.

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Language: English . This book usually ship within 10-15 business days and we will endeavor to dispatch orders quicker than this where possible. Brand New Book. Excerpt from Hunting the Sea Otter Owing to the more favourable conditions under which hunting could be prosecuted elsewhere, the whole of the American coast proper, that is from Lower California to Alaska, the extremities of the sea otter s range, has long been abandoned as a profitable hunting ground; such few skins as are still obtained would scarcely amount to one hundred annually; although Sir George Simpson, writing in 1841, states that since 1814 the Russians had sent to market the enormous number of eighty thousand sea otter skins from California alone. SO much for the state of affairs under Russian administra tion. Let us now see what the United States Government have done for the preservation of the sea otter and the protection of the natives who depend upon their barter as the only means of ameliorating the conditions under which they existed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at 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.

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