LITTLE STINT 



CHAPTER III. 



ARCHANGEL, 



The White City, Archangel — Decline of its Commerce — Cheapness of 

 Living — Peter Kotzoff — Father Inokentia — The Samoyedes and their 

 Sledges — Their Physical Characteristics — Samoyede Names of Birds 

 — National Songs — Election of Samoyede Chiefs — Their Ignorance of 

 Doctors or Medicinal Plants— Piottuch— Birds — The Weather — Hasty 

 Departure from Archangel. 



We spent nineteen days in Archangel completing the 

 preparations for our journey, and picking up what in- 

 formation we could respecting the great river Petchora, 

 and the routes thither. Everybody looked upon our 

 expedition as a most formidable undertaking, but all were 

 anxious to give us every assistance in their power. There 

 is an excellent German club in Archangel, and we 

 dropped a few roubles in practising krasnoye po bielemou 



