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throw it underhand, and not so well as the cowboys with 

 their overhand throw. The deer are brought up by the 

 does and the adliurs, and are then divided into two lots. 

 The cows and calves are constantly bolting from one 

 side to the other as the men creep after them, and on a 

 favourable chance the di-zha is thrown. A calf or young 

 deer makes a fine struggle, and takes a lot of holding, 

 but very often the cows, from having been often caught 

 before, come in to hand without any or with little resist- 

 ance. 



The poor deer tormented by the fly rushed all over 

 the place, scuts up, snorting and grunting. 



The musquitoes were bad to-day, and gnats were in 

 clouds. I think the Samoyed name for the musquito is 

 so good — ' nyanink', they call it, from the noise and its 

 stab. ' Nya' is its singing, and then 'nink,' and in goes 

 its horrid little stab. 



However, at 11.30 we left again for goose creek. 



First the sleighs were loaded on the island, and then 

 the creese W ere brought across to the mainland and 

 cached. 



The turf cut round with the axe, where the cloudberry 

 grew thickest, was torn up with the hands ; then the 

 geese were stood on their tails with the heads tucked in, 

 till the girls had made a circular group some three or 

 four yards across. Then the turfs were rolled back on 

 them a double layer, and the packing was complete. 



' Dorndaftsa come hungry now, and dorndaftsa go 



