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through in the course of a morning; it would be hard to 

 say. Yet the good old deer never loses patience. 



There is a savage black dog" also who came with 

 Verrmyah, Naryan by name, who bites every one else. 

 But to-day little Wanka was bullying him, harnessing 

 him like a deer, and Naryan stood there enjoying it. 



August ut/i. — To-day we moved our camp three 

 versts further up the hill, to try and escape the reindeer 

 fly, which has become an intolerable nuisance. 



We pitched on an old camping ground, where for the 

 first time we found a genuine spring of good water at a 

 point where the sand meets the clay. Unfortunately 

 from this point we cannot see the sea ; but in the even- 

 ing- I walked off to a hill from which I had a view of the 

 whole coast from Pesanka mountains to Barokoska Nos. 

 I saw no sign of a boat, and only a little ice. 



I came upon many packs of willow-grouse cocks, 

 varying in number from fourteen to twenty-three. 



Mekolka brought in to-day a red-throated diver in the 

 down. He said that he was after geese in his boat, 

 when the little thing, after diving in front of him, ran out 

 on to the bank, when he caught it. A strangely undiver- 

 like proceeding. 



Hyland has been given a sweet little puppy which 



answers to the name of Tyamuk. A most sagacious little 



-creature, though only six weeks old ; it is most quaint to 



see it coming' across all alone to our tent from the choom. 



