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And we guarantee 700 birds. This is at the rate of half 

 a rouble Cls. Cd.) per skin. We consider we are treating 

 him handsomely, but he knows he will have to work hard 

 in return, and 500 roubles being the full sum we will pay 

 him, he is bound to guarantee us 1,100 skins for that sum 

 and as many more as he can skin. 



Katzoff we cannot engage, nor do we think it advisable 

 to take any other man. Had we taken another he would 

 cost us 300 roubles. But we can get men at Petchora far 

 cheaper and quite as good. Except Katzoff, who cer- 

 tainly is a most superior man, and would have been 

 invaluable to us, we cannot hear of another. 



March 23. 



We spent Tuesday and Wednesday, the 23rd and 24th 

 of March, in Archangel, and on the Tuesday we went to 

 the market and bought some requisites, tow, cotton, shot, 

 two small barrels for spirits — cognac, and arrack, etc. — 

 and I purchased some old silver at 4s. 6d. per oz. and a 

 few kopeks over, viz., chain and cross, 8^ roubles ; clasp, 

 2 roubles ; set of four sleeve-links, 2 roubles ; cross, 

 1 rouble ; and cross, 2 roubles 50 kopeks. 



The following are some of the prices of provisions in 

 Archangel : — 



Beef, 80 k. in winter, 10 k. in summer ; Capercaillie, 

 50 k, each in winter, 25 k. in autumn ; Hazel Grouse, 30 k. 

 per pair in winter, 25 k. in autumn ; Hares, at present, 

 20 k. in winter, 8 k. in autumn ; butter, 20 k. ; white 

 bread, 12 k. per lb. ; English rolls, four to the English 

 lb., are 3 k. each ; black bread, 2 k. per lb. ; salmon, 40 k. 

 per lb., sometimes 25 k.; 'krinke' (about a quart), of 

 milk, 3 k. ; cream, 12 k. per bottle, 1^ pint ; 100 fathoms 

 of firewood — the average allowance of annual firing in a 

 small family — 70 roubles. 



The German Club in Archangel contains a handsome 



