44 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 



Besides these birds we found the red-necked and the 

 grey phalarope, and in their stomachs were the remains 

 of mosquito larvae. So I knew we should be troubled 

 with this enemy when the sun grew hot. 

 , Of flowers we came at once on Nardosmia frigida, a 



well-known Arctic plant, and 

 saw the dead remains of a 

 Potentilla and of a large um- 

 bellifer. The cloudberry which 

 we left in flower at Tromso 

 only showed a small green 

 shoot at lonQf intervals. The 

 cranberry was just pushing a 



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THE CLOUDBERRY. 



few Qrreen leaves through the 

 moss. In Saxon Lake I saw 

 what I took to be the dead 

 remains of a Potamogeton, and 

 I looked in vain for the Hippuris which was so abun- 

 dant at Tromso. I made notes on many other plants, 

 but as none of them have popular names, or I do not 

 know these where they exist, I shall be better advised 

 to leave them all to my chapter on flowers. 



We saw no human beings, nor any very recent signs 

 of their presence. But we did come upon old sleigh and 

 reindeer tracks, also upon beacons built up of drift-wood 

 (which was very abundant), and circular furrows round 

 rises where chooms had evidently stood. 



Also I pointed out to Hyland a place where stones 



