148 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 



and a half, but no geese came. There were several pairs 

 of red-necked phalaropes flying and swimming about, and 

 calling shrilly ' tweet, tweet.' I could not find a nest. 



Returning at 4 a.m. I lay down to sleep in a hollow 

 of a hillside. Very comfortably indeed I slept, for my 

 sovik kept me warm in spite of the fog, frost, and a 

 constant shower of little chips of hard ice. 



About nine o'clock it cleared up, and I cooked some 

 Liebig for Hyland and myself. The men ate food which 

 they had brought with them. 



There was a good deal of delay in getting off, because 

 the reindeer had to be first brought in, and they had 

 wandered far. My telescope came in very usefully here. 

 For the Samoyeds had not the least idea where the deer 

 were. Shabla went off with his adliurs in quite the 

 wrong direction, and after scouring the country for some 

 time, came back rather cflum. But meanwhile I had 

 been up to the top of a hill, and after a good look round, 

 spied the heads of two deer a long way off, for the main 

 body were down in a hollow. So I put Shabla on the 

 scent, and very soon he brought them in. 



In our care to avoid the more difficult parts of the 

 hills we had dropped a good deal to the south of our 

 line, so now we turned nearly due north, crossing again 

 the hills we had traversed on foot, till we reached a point 

 some five miles from the northern coast, and then turned 

 west. Keeping this course we reached at 3.30 p.m. the 

 mouth of the Gusina. 



