. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . insound of the bells the hunter waited one, two, or threedays, until the tinkling warned him that the sable hadcome out and was entangled in the net. Another mode ofsecuring the animal was to smoke it out of its hole andthen to shoot it. At Dudinka we saw some excellent coal, which burntas well as any English fuel. It was brought by Sotnikofffrom a mine on the tundra, about eighty versts fromDudinka. There was also a quantity of blue and greencopper ore from the same place. We understood that
. The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei . insound of the bells the hunter waited one, two, or threedays, until the tinkling warned him that the sable hadcome out and was entangled in the net. Another mode ofsecuring the animal was to smoke it out of its hole andthen to shoot it. At Dudinka we saw some excellent coal, which burntas well as any English fuel. It was brought by Sotnikofffrom a mine on the tundra, about eighty versts fromDudinka. There was also a quantity of blue and greencopper ore from the same place. We understood thatthis had been analysed, but had not turned out worthworking, only containing 5 to 10 per cent, of metal. Soon after leaving Dudinka the trees became more 392 DOWN RIVER TO DUDINKA scarce upon the banks of the river. The right bank wasstill steep, and was called the rocky bank ; the left shorewas flat, and was called the meadow bank. We passedseveral islands and sandbanks. On one of the latter wegot aground, but by running an anchor out in a boat fromthe ship we soon hauled her off into deep MAMMOTH TOOTH(Under view)
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