302 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 



' They will never come now,' he said ; ' very much ice, 

 ship lost, yes, yes.' 



I got to bed at 3.30, and slept right away till 9 o'clock, 

 an unusual feat for me. 



And it does not seem that I did much of interest this 

 day. I caught a great quantity of ephemeridce by a pool, 

 and I found the crop of a young willow-grouse full of the 

 buds or spores of saxifraga cernua. Also, I opened my 

 beetle box, and found to my sorrow that a beetle I had 

 believed defunct had recovered and had eaten all the rest. 



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August \\th. — Hyland still suffering from headache. 

 I went round a small chain of lakes by myself, but saw 

 little of importance. 



Little Wanka was very comical — the whole day he 

 went stumping around in his father's long boots, saying, 

 ' Ahnglia, Ahnglia,' every time he passed our tent door 

 He meant he was like me, with my big boots. 



Two notes from my diary are — 



' A barrel full of salted geese contains 300, and sells for 

 ten roubles. The value of the barrel is two roubles.' 



' The two largest calves here are 3! months old, i.e. 

 they w r ere born the first week in May. When ten 

 months old they are entered to sleigh work, the five 



