CONTENTS 



PART I 

 TO THE PETCHORA VALLEY 



CHAPTER I. 



EARLY EXPLORERS. 



John Wolley — Unknown Breeding-Grounds — Birds of Archangel and Lapland — 

 Voyages to the Petchora in the Seventeenth Century — Schrenck's Visit in 

 1837 — Castren's Visit in 1842 — Keyserling's Visit in 1843 — Pelzam's 

 Visit in i874^Hoffmansegg's Visit about 1850 — Outfit — Letters of Intro- 

 duction .......... Pp. 3-6 



CHAPTER H. 



LONDON TO ARCHANGEL. 



London to St. Petersburg — Mode of Heating Railway Carriages — Frozen Market 

 at St. Petersburg — Bohemian Waxwings — Moscow to Vologda — M. Verakin — 

 Sledging from Vologda to Archangel — The Yemschik — Post-houses — The 

 Samovar — Angliski Russ — Modes of Harnessing Horses — State of the Roads — 

 Weather — Traffic — Birds seen en route — Arrival at Archangel . . Pp. 7-13 



CHAPTER HL 



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 I'lants 

 —Piottuch— Birds— The Weather— Hasty Departure from Archangel 



Pp. 14-20 



