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INDEX 



Note to Povvys nailed on (lag-staff, 298. 



Verrmyah asked to deposit in 



chapel, 309. 

 Num (ancient god), 327, 328. 

 Nyanitz, 127. 



Onaska, sleigh-driver, 142, 143, 152, 



154, 218, 276, 278, 284, 2S9. 

 Okshin, 301, 368, 372. 

 Ombara (storage-hut), 332, 347. 

 OnTipa, 77, 144, 308, 331. 

 Ooze, nodules of, 356. 

 Ost Vaagen, 17. 

 Oven, building of, 262. 



Samoyed appreciation of, 266. 



Owl, snowy (see Birds). 



Packages carried, 85. 



method of carrying, 1 12. 



Pancakes, 338. 



Panitsa, making of, 304. 



' Parlka,' stick of Samoyed, 220. 



Parnassus grass, 299. 



Pasco and her puppies, 234. 



Peasant wedding, 374. 



Peat, 114. 



beds, 100. 



Peinmur River, 184, 213. 

 Pelecypoda, 255. 

 Perspiration, 264. 

 Pesanka camp, arrival at, 269. 



hills, 219. 



lake, 327. 



mountains, 276, 293, 303, 327. 



river, ill, 162, 167, 174, 244. 



Petchora, anxious to reach, 368. 



river, 143, 373, 374. 



Peterhead, 3, 4. 

 Petrel, fulmar, 355- 

 Phalarope (see Birds). 

 Pilot, 5, 7, 8, 11. 

 Pinks (see flowers). 

 Pipits (see Birds). 

 Plants- 

 Birch, creeping, 115. 



Cloudberry, 285, 321. 



Cranberry, 44. 



Fleabane (Cinerarea palitstris), 290. 



Hippris, 44. 



Raspberry, Arctic, 242. 



double red, 312. 



Plovers (see Birds). 

 Polemonium Qzruleum, 196. 

 Pomorrna (punting poles), 366. 

 Pooziri bottle, 324. 

 Potamogcton, dead remains of, 44. 

 Potentilla (see flowers). 

 Po-um-ga, 222. 

 Presents, 337, 352, 353. 

 Primula, pink, 170. 



Promoince, Lake, 34, 38, 325. 



Pronia (Samoyed woman), 369. 



Pros-to-deelsa, 322. 



Provisions, partly exhausted, 286. 



Puffers, herring, II. 



Puffins (see Birds). 



Pugrinoy river, 192, 255, 256, 325, 329, 



331- 



chapel at mouth of, 332. 



Pyrethrum, yellow, 200. 

 Pyrola (winter-green), 332. 



Quartz, 19, 40. 

 Queenborough, 373. 

 Quite Ness, 7. 



Race, a, 301. 



Rain, 171, 217, 251, 267, 268, 288, 323, 



33i. 334, 346, 35i, 371. 

 Rainbow, 200. 

 Ranunculus acris, 14, 49, 239, 330. 



■ sweet white, 239. 



Raskolniks, 50. 

 Raspberry, Arctic, 242. 



double-red, 312. 



Rasputa (a season), 373. 



Raven (see Birds). 



Razor-bills, 17, 20. 



Red-throated Pipit, 53, 78. 



Reeve, 255. 



Reindeer, 11, 120, 122, 142, 241, 256, 



303, 372. 



(Alexander's), 321. 



Alexis', 319. 



calves, 302. 



catching by Russians, 349. 



drinking of, 247. 



eaten raw, by Samoyeds, 28 1. 



eccentricities of, 333. 



escape of, 350. 



feeding of, 246. 



fighting amongst, 329. 



milk of, 312. 



performances of, 145. 



remains of, 327. 



securing of, 148, 166. 



shooting of, 334. 



skinning of, 343. 



track of, 45. 



young one killed, 2S0. 



bridle, sketch of, 296. 



driving pole (toorr), 294. 



eye, a delicacy, 338. 



fly, 237, 241, 293, 305, 310. 



harness, description of, 295. 



■ diagram of, 296. 



horns, native use of, 176. 



sawing of, 329. 



- — (bull) horns, loss of velvet, 305. 



