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sparkle. I collected many new flowers — a large ranun- 

 culus, a very pretty pink (D. superbus) and a gentian in 

 seed (G. verna). 



At noon we left and and drove back to Scharok, 



where I was 

 ^SJfe^i^~ sorry to find 



djMfy^: Hyland still ill 

 1 with pains in 

 his back. 

 It was so very hard to 

 make these Samoyeds give 

 you the reasons for things. 

 We happened to be talk- 

 ing in Alexander's isba 

 about the birds, and I 

 found that the Russians 

 too call the snowy owl 

 'snuff' (sowah). Alex- 

 ander said he didn't in the 

 least know why it was, un- 

 less it was from some noise 



THE SPLENDID PINK (DicUlthllS Sllperbus) , i T 1 i 



they made. 1, who knew, 

 of course, that it would be because of the snowy's 

 hissing noise, tried hard to get the Samoyeds to explain 

 why they also called it 'snuff,' or 'sneezing' (heinib- 

 chur in the Samoyed, as I have said before). I did not 

 succeed, though Uano was evidently quite satisfied that 

 he had given the only explanation when he answered 





