Through Arctic Lapland . ed this something mightbe to explore the Petchora or one of the lesser-knownNorthern Siberian rivers, to make the acquaintanceof the Samoyede in his native choom, and incidentallyto do some big game shooting. We knew remarkablylittle about the country, and so were quite unfetteredin making some very appetising plans. This was sixmonths before the Windward sailed, and though wemet two or three times in the interval, the matterwas only mentioned casually, and with merely adilettante interest. Finally, when Mr. Alfred Harmsworth wired Are you going North with Windward ? a
Through Arctic Lapland . ed this something mightbe to explore the Petchora or one of the lesser-knownNorthern Siberian rivers, to make the acquaintanceof the Samoyede in his native choom, and incidentallyto do some big game shooting. We knew remarkablylittle about the country, and so were quite unfetteredin making some very appetising plans. This was sixmonths before the Windward sailed, and though wemet two or three times in the interval, the matterwas only mentioned casually, and with merely adilettante interest. Finally, when Mr. Alfred Harmsworth wired Are you going North with Windward ? and got asimultaneous reply of Delighted from each of us,the yacht was booked to sail in fifty hours time, andany preparations we wished to make were naturallyhustled. When we actually did get under weigh, our outfitconsisted of one inferior double-barrelled 12-bore shotgun by an anonymous maker, one good Marlin 45repeating rifle carrying a long bullet, a small assort-ment of tinned foods and loaded cartridges, an imagin-. MIDMGHT AMONG THE LOFOTENS, ii m mm twifjj
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