334 THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



On Sunday, Nov. 13th, after considerable delay in catching 

 the reindeer, which was done by lassooing them among the 

 woods where they had been allowed to go to browse, we 

 resumed our journey. After traveling all day and crossing 

 some mountains where the snow blew fiercely in our faces, 

 (some of the party w^ere lashed fast to their sleds) and 

 making about seventy versts, we stopped for the night at a 

 rude povarnia, full of cracks and holes. In the morning we 

 started again. On the next day Mr. Danenhower shot a fine 

 young reindeer which proved an important acquisition to 

 our larder. The next night we lost our road, after traveling 

 nearly one hundred versts, and had much difficulty in finding 

 it again. We were very tired when we reached a povarnia, 

 and after a meal of deer meat and black bread we turned in 

 to sleep. 



On Friday, November 18th, we made sixty versts, and 

 reached a stansea, where we found people living, and where 

 we procured a change of diet. A stansea differs from a 

 povarnia insomuch as it is more substantially built of logs, 

 and occupied. This stansea was a place of two houses, with 

 a yard and fences made of small trees. Here were a num- 

 ber of cows, small, scrubby little animals ; their milk was 

 very nice indeed. We obtained a lot of frozen milk to take 

 along with us. I saw five white horses and one bull at this 

 place. 



On the next day, about noon, we started again, and after 

 a very cold ride of sixty versts reached a balogan, or native 

 hut, where comfortable quarters awaited us. A fine-looking 

 young Russian, an exile, occupied this place, and I exchanged 

 with him a seal ring for new mittens and a fine pair of moc- 

 casins. The next day, Sunday, we made only a short run of 

 forty versts over very good roads, reaching before dark a 

 small povarnia where we stopped for the night. On Monday 

 we started off in a snow storm, but it stopped about noon, at 

 which time we halted for some hot tea at a balogan where 

 were a number of cows and several horses one with a sad- 



