310 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 



August \?>th. — 'This has been a day.' 



I was sitting" at the tent-door at five this evening, 

 making a sketch of pi-liuh, the reindeer fly, and his 

 larva, when suddenly away on the tundra rose a most 

 extraordinary yelling. It gathered force as it came on, 

 and lo ! it was Uano come back from Scharok. 



He was 'half-seas over' now, and had evidently been 

 rioht across the ocean. 



' My Russmann come,' he screamed at the top of his 

 voice, and again 'My Russmann,' and a hundred times 

 the same burden, till at last he pulled up and tumbled 

 off the sleigh, quite helpless. 



They helped him into the choom, where he soon 

 recovered, and volubly gave an account of his visit. I 

 could hear it all going on, but had not the spirit to go 

 in ; it was so depressing to see our kind old friend come 

 to this pass. Now and then he would shout for me, but 

 I would not go. At last he came stumbling across to 

 my tent, and plopped down in the entrance. 



' My Russmann,' he says between crying and laughing. 

 ' Uano's Russman come Scharok ! My Russman very 

 good! yes, yes. My Russman say, "I wish Hylum 

 and Ahnglia, no, two Ahnglia — here — tea, sugar, tobacco, 

 yes, I give all." My good Russman! yes, yes.' 



'Two Ahnglia' (two England) showed that the Russian 

 had tried to explain to him who we were. 



But he was such a nuisance that I made his wife 

 come down and drao- him off. 



