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sometimes ice remains all summer attached to the walls. 

 In some wells in the country the ice never melts. 



We shot a Tree Pipit and a few other things, and 

 arrived at Walduski about 3.30 or four o'clock. 



The village of Walduski lies on the only high ground 

 for miles round, about 80 feet above the river, and 

 commands a fine view of Archangel and the surrounding 

 country. 



W^e found the heat so suffocating in the house that 

 I gave up all idea of sleeping" until the sun should go 

 down. I shall then get three hours' sleep, and about 

 three o'clock in the morning we are all to go out to 

 collect. 



Julij 16. 



Just as we were going to try to sleep, somewhere about 

 midnight or early morning of Tuesday, the 16th of July, 

 a peasant came in and told us of a large Eagle which was 

 frequenting a spot about three versts away. So Carl, 

 Alston, and I started, with a lad to guide us. We saw a 

 pair of Eagles (true Eagles this time, probably HaUoitus 

 alhiciUa), one of them pursued by a large grey Owl, 

 which we suspect to be the Lapp Owl. The trees which 

 the Eagles principally alight upon being pointed out to 

 us, we crossed a small pond of water in a canoe and 

 landed in marshy hay-fields. We saw the Eagle in one 

 tree, but he made off. We took up positions, and most 

 painful ' positions ' they were, up to the ankles in soft, 

 moving bog, and clouds upon clouds of cumari {i.e., 

 mosquitos) feasting upon us till we were nearly devoured. 

 This we endured for about half an hour, but could hold 

 out no longer. The Eagle was seen but did not come near. 



We returned along the river by some hay-fields, where 

 I killed,'at midnight, three Keeves (one of them a young 

 one), and Alston a Yellow-breasted Bunting and a young 

 Curlew. Shooting the Reeves on the wing, Hke Snipe, 



