DOING ROBINSON CRUSOE AT DVOINIK. 



CHAPTEK 



Trip to Kuya — The prahms — Travelling in a rosposki — The birds we saw — Arrival 

 of the Triad at Alexievka — We win over the manager — The /no — Doing Robin- 

 son Crusoe in a wrecked ship— Nest of the long-tailed duck — Our first little 

 stint's nest — The tundra — Sunset and sunrise — Little stint's eggs — The tundra 

 near Bolvauski Bucht — Phalaropes — Interior of the tundra— Change of plumage 

 in phalaropes — An early morning start — Confusion of time — The snowy owl — 

 Two more nests of little stint — A march of geese on the tundra- — -An old grave. 



A day or two after our return from the G-olievski islands, a 

 chance suddenly turned up of making a trip up stream to 

 Kuya. The rafts, which ought by this time to have reached 

 Alexievka, had not arrived, and ill-natured rumours of their 

 having run aground were brought down by some fishermen. 

 The manager of the company had also run out of various 



