Ice-bound on Kolguev : a chapter in the exploration of Arctic Europe to which is added a record of the natural history of the island . We fixed up a bit of stick for a mark, and began toshoot at fifteen paces— Kallina, Marrk, Mekolka, Hyland,and I. It was a competition. The men threw themselves into a curious attitudewhen shooting. They used the bow horizontally, notperpendicularly as we at home. As they pulled theyrose on tiptoe and then almost crouched till the bowwas on a level with the eye. We held our own prettywell at this game, but Mekolka was champion ; he wasalways best at everything.
Ice-bound on Kolguev : a chapter in the exploration of Arctic Europe to which is added a record of the natural history of the island . We fixed up a bit of stick for a mark, and began toshoot at fifteen paces— Kallina, Marrk, Mekolka, Hyland,and I. It was a competition. The men threw themselves into a curious attitudewhen shooting. They used the bow horizontally, notperpendicularly as we at home. As they pulled theyrose on tiptoe and then almost crouched till the bowwas on a level with the eye. We held our own prettywell at this game, but Mekolka was champion ; he wasalways best at everything. The peg was removed stage. DAYSINCAMP 275 by stage, until at last it was about forty paces away. Atthis distance Mekolka made very fair practice. Whetherthe peg was hit or no, his arrows were nearly alwayssufficiently near to have transfixed a goose had one beenthere. Of course it was absolutely nothing in the wayof archery; but one could quite understand how aprowling Samoyed could creep upon his quarry, andsecure it by these simple means. Then we threw the di-zha. They were far and awaybetter than we were at this ; and shouts of laughtergreeted my feeble efforts to entangle the stump. Nothingcould exceed the patience with which they tried to teachthe proper method ; the gathering it up in the hand ; theswing, the throw, the drawing tight. Just as a cowboyat the moment of noosino- a bullock turns his bronchoto resist the strain, so in many cases the Samoyed turnshis back to the strug-o-lino- deer, brino-ino- the di-zha acrosshis thigh. But not when he has a very wild or strong-beast to tackle. In this case he
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