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 . 324 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV levels, and a river winding- through. It was curious tofind ones-self alone with these two old people, away onso desolate a spot. When I returned from my walk they were bringing inthe reindeer. Mrs. Marrk was really a remarkable oldwoman. She and her old man managed a herd of 300reindeer every bit as well as we could have done with all our hands in Pesankacamp. The old ladywas a miracle. Shedid all the businessof the adliurs, gallop-ing
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 . 324 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV levels, and a river winding- through. It was curious tofind ones-self alone with these two old people, away onso desolate a spot. When I returned from my walk they were bringing inthe reindeer. Mrs. Marrk was really a remarkable oldwoman. She and her old man managed a herd of 300reindeer every bit as well as we could have done with all our hands in Pesankacamp. The old ladywas a miracle. Shedid all the businessof the adliurs, gallop-ing round with thedogs, and jumping onand off her sleighlike a young is a picture ofher taken on thespot, as she sat inAlexanders hut witha pooziri bottle in herhand. These pooziri bottles are glass globes, whichthe Scandinavian fishermen use as floats for their are picked up on the Kolguev coast, and thenserve the purpose of vodki bottles. Marrks Niasminta cut up rusty just after we had left,and the old man was all but hurled over a precipice,sleigh and TO THE HOLY HILLS 325 We crossed the Pugrinoy river, 21 versts from the gulfand 3 versts from its source. Soon after this we cameto Honorohur mountain, which the Russians call Lodka(the boat), for that is the appearance it presents to themwhen seen from the Pugrinoy mouth, where their boatssometimes lie. I walked to the top ; it is about 100 feet high, andhad a fine view over the surrounding country. Away tothe west were the Gobista mountains, and shining inthe sunlight to the south was the great lake Promoince,looking as if only a mile or two away. Here I found a lovely delphinium (D. elattmi): identical,it seems, with the old-fashioned blue one of our were dark violet, some were blue ; some with more,some with less white in the eye. So that which I hadalways supposed a gardeners creation is really a naturalfeature. An hour later we had reached the mountain So-wandeyi. Here was a really rem
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