. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . OLD RUSSIAN SILVER CROSS. \VI I,LOW-GROUSE CHAPTER XII. THE PETCHORA IN FLOOD. Samoyede Names—The Blue-throated Warbler—Toads—Birds Restingon Migration—Sparrow-hawk—The Petchora Free from Ice—A NewSong—Ceremony of Blessing the Steamer—Rambles in the Woods—Appearance of the Mosquitoes. Whilst we were waiting for the flood in the Petchora tosubside sufficiently to make it safe for us to proceeddown the river in a small boat, we met with a Samoyedesomewhat more intelligent than usual, and from h
. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . OLD RUSSIAN SILVER CROSS. \VI I,LOW-GROUSE CHAPTER XII. THE PETCHORA IN FLOOD. Samoyede Names—The Blue-throated Warbler—Toads—Birds Restingon Migration—Sparrow-hawk—The Petchora Free from Ice—A NewSong—Ceremony of Blessing the Steamer—Rambles in the Woods—Appearance of the Mosquitoes. Whilst we were waiting for the flood in the Petchora tosubside sufficiently to make it safe for us to proceeddown the river in a small boat, we met with a Samoyedesomewhat more intelligent than usual, and from him wewere glad to learn something more concerning the namesof various articles connected with reindeer and sledgingwhich we had collected. It is somewhat difficult to G 98 THE PETCHORA IN FLOOD express the exact sound in English characters, sincealmost every Samoyede word is pronounced either nasallyor gutturally. The Samoyede for sledge is khan, the kh pronouncedlike ch in German, and the n like n in Spanish. A reindeer is tu, the ti like the German //, Thereare three sorts of reindeer: khora-tii, the en
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