THE FLOODED BANKS OF THE RIVER 



CHAPTER XIII. 



A TRIP TO HABARIKI. 



Trip to Habariki— Forest Scenery— Tarns in the Woods— Changeable 

 Weather— New Birds identified in the Forests— Golden Eagle— Osprey— 

 Hobby — Cuckoo— Yellow-headed Wagtail- Bohemian Waxwing— Great 

 Snipe— Terek Sandpiper— Goosander— Smew — Black-throated Diver. 



We were fast asleep the next evening when we were 

 roused up by Captain Engel's invitation to go down with 

 him by the steamer to Habariki to stay there three days. 

 We had barely time to dress and fill our pockets with 

 ■cartridores. The current of the river was in our favour ; 

 it was running at the rate of four miles an hour, and we 

 accomplished the twenty-seven miles in two hours. 

 Arrived at Habariki we scarcely recognised the place 

 again. The snow had disappeared, all but a patch or 

 two on the Timanski hills, fifty miles off. The Petchora, 

 freed from ice, had risen some twenty feet or more, and 



