50 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 



worse. It was clear enough with us, and there was 

 strangely little wind ; but across the north of the island 

 an far away to seaward long black and copper streaks 

 of something driving — snow, fog, rain, I could not tell 

 which— made things look very queer. 



I did not like it at all. Ours was a most exposed 

 anchorage. The wind was then from the north-west ; 

 but it chops so quickly hereabouts that I felt at any time 

 we might be caught. So, instead of turning in, I got 

 out my paint-box and made a careful study of the coast. 

 Immediately opposite the cross on this sketch is Sauchika 

 entry, and from here we could just see the Kriva head- 

 land where we lay before. 



The most noticeable point in the coast-line from this 

 position is the 'cow's horns.' But I am afraid that a 

 sketch, be it never so careful, would be of little use to a 

 future voyager after a year or two had gone by. Lutke 

 published his projections, and very carefully they were 

 done. Meantime the cliffs have crumbled and tumbled, 

 and all is changed. 



As time went on the sky improved, but, all the same, 

 one could not but feel that we had no right to be lying 

 out here while there was a chance of finding a snug place. 



The Gusina, if any, promised to be such. Here it was 

 the Raskolniks landed, and here it seemed possible we 

 might too. So, at 4.30 a.m., when the skipper came up, 

 I told him what I thought : whereupon we got up steam 

 and moved off. All looked fair now ; there was no par- 



