mi ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUKV 



authority down to the police-master of the railway 

 station, every official with whom I have been brought 



into relationship has done far more in my interests than 

 I had any right to expect. Particularly I would offer 

 my sincere thanks to his Excellency the Russian Am- 

 bassador to London, his Excellency the Governor of 

 the Province of Archangel, to both of whom I owed the 

 papers which carried me through; the Ispravnik of 

 1 st Tsilma, who went even to the length of advancing me 

 a considerable sum of money without further assurance 

 than m\ word that he would get it back. (Which of us, 

 I wonder, would do this for an unknown foreigner?) 



If I have said anything that may seem a little hard 

 of my honest and faithful companion on Kolguev, 

 Thomas Hyland, I beg he will take: it in good part. It 

 is not said in an unkind spirit. To take a quiet and inex- 

 perienced country man away from his simple occupations 

 to the wild life of an Arctic island is necessarily an ex- 

 periment of doubtful event. But I trust the experience 

 is not found an unpleasant one now that he comes to 

 look back on it from the quiet of his home. 



Searching through old records is always arduous work ; 

 and in this connection I cannot but acknowledge the 

 kindness of Mr. J. Scott Keltic. Assistant Secretary to 

 the Royal Geographical Society, and the courteous 

 assistance of every official related to that body. 



