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 left at about four oclock in the afternoon. Forgood-bye the women said prostee, which is the commonSamoyed formula. It may be Samoyed, but it soundslike a corruption of the Russian pra-schei or pra-scheite. We crossed in the order named, the Tinyan, theBarakova and the Peinmur rivers, all running- throuQ-hthe same flat, and then came upon a really fine Uano told us they called Solnoi Toh, which is tosay, Solnoi Lake. The Russians, he added, called
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 left at about four oclock in the afternoon. Forgood-bye the women said prostee, which is the commonSamoyed formula. It may be Samoyed, but it soundslike a corruption of the Russian pra-schei or pra-scheite. We crossed in the order named, the Tinyan, theBarakova and the Peinmur rivers, all running- throuQ-hthe same flat, and then came upon a really fine Uano told us they called Solnoi Toh, which is tosay, Solnoi Lake. The Russians, he added, called itSolnoida or Soldonoida Lake (ozero). Soon after seven oclock we made the passage ofthe Baroshika, the largest river, said Uano, after thePesanka, on this coast. An hour and a half later we rose a slight hill, andthere, some four miles off, were a row of little huts,plainly visible against a background of ice. They wrerenot much to look at, but even after these few days of ourwanderings seemed about as strange as though in themiddle of Gobi you should come upon a modern hotel. Here the men pulled up the reindeer, flung down the. Si £ z z PESANKA TO SCHAROK 185 toors (driving rods), and sprang from the sleighs. Scharok, Scharok, they cried together— Sarco in theSamoyed—in the Samoyed Sarco. They always puteverything twice like this, for fear that I should miss after they found that I wrote down their words, andused to try and use them, they were at the greatest painsto teach me all they could. And then they snuffed and the reindeer fed. Theground was well lichened, and the deer were just halfan hour feeding steadily before they raised their within a minute or two of each other every headwas up. But we left them no time for rumination, foragain we moved off. And then we took to the snow at the sides of the mudcreeks, and then to the mud itself, on which the sleighsran very well. Splish, splosh went the feet of the deer, squirting upunsavoury mud which the
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