CHAPTER VI.

GOLOVINSKY.

Lunch in the forest--Picturesque riding--A spill--Telegraph shanty at Golovinsky--Robinson Crusoe--Native guns--Tracks of game--Multitudes of pheasants---Paucity of native hunters--Tscherkess mocassins--Experiences of forest life--Killing a bear--Cooking him--Another bag--A lost chance--Anecdotes of ‘Michael Michaelovitch’--Shooting a boar 110