DOING ROBINSON CRUSOE AT DVOINIK. 



CHAPTEK XXI. 



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 Bolvanski 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 



