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 . er and scampered off. We pulled up now and then for the deer to rest, andonce Mekolka left us. He had picked up by the way areindeers shed antler. This he bore away to a spot onthe tundra, where was a circular, low tower, built entirelyof reindeers horns. On this he placed the horn he bore, NO M ADS 177 but he brought away, after much selection, another in itsplace. The Samoyeds pile the horns in this way forstorage and exchange. Under the action of the sun and

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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 . er and scampered off. We pulled up now and then for the deer to rest, andonce Mekolka left us. He had picked up by the way areindeers shed antler. This he bore away to a spot onthe tundra, where was a circular, low tower, built entirelyof reindeers horns. On this he placed the horn he bore, NO M ADS 177 but he brought away, after much selection, another in itsplace. The Samoyeds pile the horns in this way forstorage and exchange. Under the action of the sun andthe salt winds the horns are bleached and workable, andare useful then for many purposes. We were now for the first time on a regular sleigh-route ; from continuous old traces of sleighs you could seethat this was so. But in the evening we reached a charming spot in fullview of the ice of the sea. By us, on the other side, were several little pools. The place itself was a gravel, stony rise, not lofty, but high enough to command thetundra which lay around. It was evidently an old camping-ground, and here westayed. (SZfe&aSft.*. SLIPPERS MADE BY SAMOYEDS M CHAPTER IV PESANKA TO SCHAROK Juty 8.—No day in any country could possibly bemore lovely than this. I might have been back in themountains of California, when the sun is despoiling thesnow, and the wind comes down the valleys so lightlythat it scarcely stirs a leaf of the poplars to fright theblack-tailed deer. This sense was often upon me duringthe day. But could I paint as became the subject youwould have a very different scene from that. Long-descriptions tire us all, but for once I should just liketo try and set you down where we were now. Sowill you, for one moment, shut your eyes, and give yourself to me? Just behind us was a gorge filled with snow. Up thisthe sleiohs had wound from the river to find the plateauwhere we were. But very soon on that northern sidethe hills dropt down, and there was the Pesanka coilingaway o