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Many medusae had been left by the tide, and at 

 the head of a small inlet some mollusca 1 were very 

 abundant. 



The boat I found quite safe, although the tide had 

 been unusually high. Now, I thought, we can walk 

 down until we reach the Pugrinoy on the gulf. Not so ; 

 after another mile or so of the sand-banks we were 

 suddenly brought up by an absolutely impassable river 

 estuary. 



But we followed up the bank by its various windings, 

 until at last, in spite of very deep mud, we were again on 

 the mainland. 



Here I found a reeve with two little downy young 

 ones. 



So I walked on to the south-west until all of a sudden 

 we spied three sleighs coming over the tundra from the 

 north. We sat on a hummock and waited. 



The sleighs hesitated and stopped short. After a 

 pause one of them came on alone. It arrived — our dirty 

 little Shabla driving four reindeer cows. 



He was far more pleased to see us than I to see him, 

 for I had never cared much for this tiresome, sly little 



1 These included the following widely distributed Northern forms, viz. : — 

 Gastropoda — Chrysodonms despectus (Linn.). 



Buccinum scalariforme Beck. 



Natica gromlandica Beck. 



Margarita undulata Sowerby. 

 Pelecypoda — Cardium grxiilandiciim Chemn. 



Mya truncata Linn. 



Macoma balthica (Linn.). 



Mytilus edit lis Linn. 



