UST-ZYLMA. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Bad roads Postal service in winter aiid 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 river The Pizhma The roads 

 Piottuch's accident The Via diabolica Bolshanivagorskia Break up of the 

 road Polish prejudices The villages Curiosity of the peasants Greek 

 crosses Love of ornament Employment and amusements Samoyedes Birds 

 Umskia First view of the Petchora Arrival at Ust-Zylma. 



THE journey from Archangel to Ust-Zylma on the Petchora 

 is between seven and eight hundred English miles. There 

 are about forty stations, the distance between each being 

 somewhat greater than that on our previous journey. Had 

 we left Archangel a fortnight earlier, before the sun was 



