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ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 



for they were visitors at the choom. Niab-kutni's hair 

 was short and curly. We had no other curly heads on 

 Kolguev. 



Mrs. Uano, as I must call her to distinguish her from 

 her daughter, made bread very skilfully. . 



She wetted the pounded flour with water, and then 



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quite spoilt its taste by mixing it with some old dough by 

 way of leaven. Then, having made a good big pudding, 

 with a rapid movement of her finger she ran it down 

 both sides of a long flat stick, so that the stick carried 

 the loaf. Finally she spun her fingers up the edges once 

 more to thin them out and make a pretty pattern, and 



