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skinned for me more than a thousand birds, for which 

 I paid him over a hundred roubles, besides his wages, 

 but for all that I am told that since I left Yeneseisk he 

 has abused me roundly to my friends there because I 

 refused to lend him fifty roubles more when I parted 

 from him. No one must expect gratitude from a Russian 

 Jew. 



Another important business which I transacted in 

 Yeneseisk was the purchase of a ship. Boiling had a 

 schooner on the stocks, which had been originally 

 intended to bring to Yeneseisk the cargo which Professor 

 Nordenskiold left at Koreopoffsky. Other arrangements 

 were made by which Kitmanoff was to bring these goods 

 up in his steamer, and the schooner was sold to me. 

 Captain Wiggins undertook to rig it at the Kureika, 

 where it was to be delivered by Boiling as soon as the 

 ice broke up. Boiling and I were to sail in her a thousand 

 miles down the Yenesei to Dudinka, ornithologising as 

 we went along, whilst Captain Wiggins went up the 

 Kureika to take en board a cargo of graphite, which 

 Sideroffs plenipotentiary, Captain Schwanenberg, was to 

 have ready for him. In Dudinka the schooner was to be 

 disposed of on joint account, or kept as a second string 

 to our bow across the Kara Sea, as circumstances might 

 render desirable. 



The addition of Glinski to our party also made fresh 

 arrangements for travelling necessary. Now that there 

 were three of us, we required two sledges. We were 

 told that the roads were bad, and that the sledge we had 

 bought in Nishni Novgorod was too heavy for the roads 

 north of Yeneseisk. We accordingly bought a couple of 

 light sledges, mere skeletons of wood covered with open 

 matting. One of them, which Captain Wiggins and I 

 reserved for ourselves, had an apology for a hood. 



