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 . e a house mouse. When we cleaned the willow-grouse for the cooking,we threw the insides on to the grass about ten yardsfrom the tent, and these the Arctic skuas came andcarried off. The pink sea-glaux was now coming out and the prettyblue Jacobs-ladder. And everywhere cuckoo-pint wasin full flower; but its flowers were white and not lilac. On the mud-flats I noticed a new wader among- thedunlins. It proved to be a Temmincks stint. Theglaucous gulls, who were ou
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 . e a house mouse. When we cleaned the willow-grouse for the cooking,we threw the insides on to the grass about ten yardsfrom the tent, and these the Arctic skuas came andcarried off. The pink sea-glaux was now coming out and the prettyblue Jacobs-ladder. And everywhere cuckoo-pint wasin full flower; but its flowers were white and not lilac. On the mud-flats I noticed a new wader among- thedunlins. It proved to be a Temmincks stint. Theglaucous gulls, who were our very intimate friends, usedto carry their bivalves from the creek away on to theswamp behind the tent. They had quite a collection ofshells there. This evening there was rain and fog, and it was prettydismal. The wind chopped from south-west to north-west andback again ; and with every change the ice, as it separated,went off like great auns. The ice was never still. It set up or down with eachtide, and the blocks took often most fantastic shapes. Most bitterly did I repent having come down here, which 196 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV. 1. Jacobs ladder (Polemonium cariileuvi) 2. MARSH SAXIFRAGE( Hirculus) IN SCHAROK CAMP 197 I should never have done but for Verrmyahs story of thedisappearance of the ice. For I could see we were in abad place. And the ice? I climbed up to the roof .ofUanos hut in the very early morning when the air wasclear, and instead of Verrmyahs open sea this was whatI saw : To the north a line of ice—how wide I could nottell—but too wide for a vessels approach. Down theeastern side ice—ice beyond the harbour entry, beyondthat an open way, and then ice again. The Gulf wasjust one single ice-field ; and though there may have beena patch here and there of free water, only madness wouldtry to take a vessel in. July nth.—With a light wind from the east and thethermometer at 50° F. in the tent at noon, it felt quitewarm. When Hyland went down for the
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