LITTLE STINT. 



CHAPTEK III. 



The white city Archangel Decline of its commerce Cheapness of living Peter 

 Kotzoff Father Inokentia Samoyede vocabulary Their sledges Their ap- 

 pearance Samoyede names of birds Their national songs Election of their 

 chiefs Their ignorance of doctors or medicinal plants Piottuch Birds The 

 weather Hasty departure from Archangel. 



WE spent nineteen days in Archangel completing the pre- 

 parations for our journey, and picking up what information 

 we could respecting the great river Petchora, and the routes 

 thither. Everybody looked upon our expedition as a most 

 formidable undertaking, but all were anxious to give us every 

 assistance in their power. There is an excellent German 

 club in Archangel, and we dropped a few roubles in practising 



