CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



John Wolley — Unknown breeding-grounds — Birds of Archangel and 

 Lapland — Voyages to the Petchora in the seventeenth century — 

 Schrenck's visit in 1837 — Castren's visit in 1842 — Keyserling's visit 

 in 1843 — Pelzam's visit in 1874— Hoffrnansegg's visit about 1850 — 

 Outfit — Letters of introduction .. .. .. .. .. Page 1 



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CHAPTER II. 



London to St. Petersburg — Mode of heating railway carriages — Frozen 

 Market at St. Petersburg — Bohemian waxwings — Moscow to Vologda — 

 M. Verakin — Sledging from Vologda to Archangel — The Yemschik — 

 Post-houses — The Samovar — Angliski Buss — Modes of yoking horses 

 — State of the roads — Weather — Traffic — Scenery — Birds— Arrival at 

 Archangel.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 7 



CHAPTER III. 



The white city Archangel — -Decline of its commerce —Cheapness of living 

 — -Peter Kotzoff — Father Inokentia — Satnoyede vocabulary — Their 

 sledges — Their appearance — Sarhoyede names of birds — Their national 

 songs— Election of their chiefs — Their ignorance of doctors or medicinal 

 plants — Piottuch — Birds — The weather— Hasty departure from Arch- 

 angel .. ,. .. .. •• .. .. .. lo 



CHAPTER IV. 



Bad roads — Postal service in winter and summer — Changeable weather — 

 Scenery — Pinega and Kuloi rivers — -Snow plains — The forests — Birds 

 — Samoyedes— Mezen — Polish exile — Snow-buntings — -How caught — 

 Jackdaws — We leave Mezen — The weather — Scenery — The Mezen 



