Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 43.—Little Anyui River. First elevated silt l)ank, showing detail; goingup-river, Septeml;er. 1914. As there remained only a few weeks of open weather before the beginningof winter, I concluded the nearest field for promising research would be thetwo Anyui rivers. Accordingly I started upon my first exploring trip onSeptember 3 in the schooners dory, accompanied by three members of theparty who intended to do some hunting and photographing. We entered the Little Anyui and explored this river for a distance of appr
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 43.—Little Anyui River. First elevated silt l)ank, showing detail; goingup-river, Septeml;er. 1914. As there remained only a few weeks of open weather before the beginningof winter, I concluded the nearest field for promising research would be thetwo Anyui rivers. Accordingly I started upon my first exploring trip onSeptember 3 in the schooners dory, accompanied by three members of theparty who intended to do some hunting and photographing. We entered the Little Anyui and explored this river for a distance of approxi-mately 150 versts from the mouth upward. For about the first 100 versts theascent was quite easy and made by rowing. After that tracking had to beresorted to almost exclusively, the current of the river increasing rapidlyalmost at once. For the lower 100 versts the river flows—after the manner of many sub-Arctic rivers in Alaska and Canada—through a low tundra, covered withdense willow thickets and puny larches, the east forelopers of the greatSiberian taiga th
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