YURAK HUNTER 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 



DOWN RIVER TO DUDINKA. 



Wild Flowers — Willow-warbler's Nest — Windy Weather — Tracks of a 

 Bear in the Sand — A Snipe's Nest — Nest of the Arctic Willow-warbler 

 — The Captain and His Crew — British Pluck and Blunder — On the Way 

 again — Measuring the Footprints of Swans — The River Bank — Pur- 

 chasing Costumes of the Various Races — Manner of Hunting the Sable 

 — Coal from the Tundras. 



The following day I went on shore for a few hours in the 

 morning. The country was very flat, covered with 

 stunted forests of birch, willow, and alder : pines rose in 

 the distance, grass had already grown as high as our 

 knees, and wild flowers of various kinds were in full 



