ii2 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 



experienced were, of course, very trying, but we should 

 have been all right if we had had sleeping bags or a 

 tent, or even good warm great-coats. One cannot 

 expect to be very comfortable anywhere where it freezes 

 when lying out at night. It would be just the same in 

 England for that matter. Try it. Some November day 

 when the last beat is finished in the home coverts, and 

 the other guns go back to tea, try it. Take your gun, 

 stroll off, and lie down for the night in a furrow in the 

 middle of a ploughed field. You will not find your eyes 

 frozen up, but otherwise, by the time the morning breaks, 

 you will have gained a very fair idea of a night on 

 Kolguev. 



But this day we suffered from heat. 



It came on gradually about ten o'clock with a sort of 

 muggy, Torquay feeling. 



We began to feel our loads as we had not felt them 

 before. From something Hyland said I fancied he 

 thought his load was heavier than my own. So we 

 changed loads. If we had been able to contrive a 

 proper means of carrying these we could have managed 

 that weight splendidly. Another time I should be strongly 

 inclined to use one of those fish-creels which the women 

 carry in the North Scotch towns. This would take 

 everything, and would put the weight in the right place. 

 As it was, we were all straps and cords, which cut on our 

 shoulders and dragged on the neck and spine. My long 

 indiarubber wading boots, though very important for 



