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this in the year 1875. While still rowing up the river in my 

 own Nordland boat, with two scientific men and three hunt- 

 ers, before we got up with the steamer Alexander we landed 

 among others, at a place where a number of Dolgans were 

 collected. When they understood clearly that we had come 

 to them, not as brandy sellers or fish-buyers from the south, 

 but from the north, from the ocean, they went into complete 



A SEA-SICK OFFICIAL. 



ecstacies. We were exposed to unpleasant embraces from 

 our skin-clad admirers, and finally one of us had the misfor- 

 tune to get a bath in the river, in the course of an attempt 

 which the Dolgans in their excitement made to carry him 

 almost with violence to the boat, which was lying in the shal- 

 low water some distance from the shore. At Dudino, also, 

 the priests living there held a thanksgiving service for our 

 happy arrival thither. Two of them said mass, while the 

 clerk, clad in a sheepskin caftan reaching to his feet, zeal- 



