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ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 



which they laughed much, and for the greater part were 

 none the wiser. Only the Prophet said, ' Drem, drem' 

 (' yes, yes ') ; he had seen it in Archangel. Onaska, then, 

 was not a Kolguev man, and thus I learned why he 



SHABLA SMOKING HYLAND S PIPE 



In his right hand is his cow's horn snuff-box. In the distance a man goes off with the di-zha 



to take a deer 



was master of reading and writing, as the others were 



not. 



After this we all — Uano, Onaska, Shabla, On Tipa 

 and On Tipa's son, Hyland and myself, — seven men in 



