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INDEX 



Birds — continued. 

 Petrel, fulmar, 355. 

 Phalarope, grey, 44. 

 red-necked, 44, 



14S, 181, 18 



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200. 

 Pipit, red-throated, 53, 78. 

 Pipits, various, 20. 

 Plover, golden, 13. 



grey, 43, 103, 201, 207, 290. 



ringed, 92, 312. 



Puffers, herring, 11. 



Puffins, 10, 17, 20. 



Raven, 13, 20, 23. 



Reeve, 255. 



Razor-bills, 17, 20. 



Ruff, 43, 290. 



Sanderling, 197, 247, 257, 356. 



Sandpiper, common, 26. 



curlew, 209. 



purple, 350. 



Skua, Arctic, 26, 103, 114, 115, 117, 



153, 195, 287. 



(Richardson's), 13. 



twist-tailed, 53. 



Stint, 40, 41. 

 - little, 108, 



265. 



183, 195, 200, 201, 



Temminck's, 195. 



Swallow, 153. 



Swan, 43, 289, 290, 291. 



Bewick, 292. 



Terns, Arctic, 8. 



common, 7. 



Titlark, 13, 304. 



Turnstone, 42, 48, 200, 210, 247, 350. 



Wagtails, white, 20. 



Waiter, the, 247, 248. 



description of, 41. 



nests (see Nests). 

 Blizzard of hard snow, 371. 

 Blue-bottle (Dorndaftsa), 238. 

 — — fly, 298. 

 Boat, 185, 263. 



Alexander's, grounding of, 348. 



floated off, 350. 



ready to start, 351. 



sketch of, 353. 



description of, 354. 



repairs to, 252. 



■ Russian sailing, seen by Uano, 2S6. 



— — Samoyed, 164, 369. 



sleep under a, 214. 



cargo of, 352. 



sailing of, 352. 



warped to shore, 370. 



warping of, 37 1- 



Bogs, 45, 113. 



Bolvan (native idol), 336, 341. 



— — antiquity of, 338. 



Bolvan, its effect on lamp of St. Nicholas, 

 362. 



last reference to, 367. 



means of protecting, 364. 



present of, 337. 



Russians' attempt to secure, 363. 



sketch of, 338. 



superstition concerning, 355, 356 



359. 362. 



wooden, 327. 



Bolvana mountain, 40, 327, 335, 336. 



Bolvans of the Holy Hill, 342. 



propitiatory gifts to, attempt to 



obtain, 341. 

 Bommel mountain, 5. 

 Bows and arrows, competition with, 274. 

 Brambling, 13. 



Bread-making by Samoyeds, 137. 

 Breakfast of reindeer fat and black 



bread, 341. 

 Bricks, brought from Petchora, 332. 

 Bulchikoff brothers, 256, 320, 335, 339. 



names of eldest son's children, 340. 



brothers, proposed visit to Bolvana 



mountain, 336. 



their choom, 339, 340. 



307. 



Bullhead fish, 285. 

 Bunting, lapland (see Birds). 

 Bunting, snow (see Birds). 

 Buttercup (see Flowers). 

 Butterfly, 15. 



Cabin, smallness of, 354. 



Calendar, Samoyed, 302. 



Caltha Pahistnis, 14. 



Calves' ears, trimming of, 



Camomile, wild, 209. 



Camp life described, 261. 



Candle for St. Nicholas, lack of, 371. 



Cape Kanin, 27. 



Tereberskoi, 26. 



Cards, pack made, 354. 

 Carlyle referred to, 278. 

 Channel, depth of, 253. 



sounding of, 252. 



Choom (Mya), departure from, 142. 



description of, 128, 135, 136. 



discomforts of, 159. 



first seen, 120. 



method of tracing, 124. 



of Bulchikoff brothers, 339, 340. 



reached, 126. 



removing of, 166, 176. 



return to Uano's, 158. 



seen, 367. 



view of interior, 13S. 



Christian, 336. 



Climate, note on effects of, 131. 



Cloudberry (see Flowers). 



