CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PAGK 



The " Gillissy " — Departure from London — Warsaw — Contretemps 

 at Moscow — Krasnoyarsk — Vassilli Ivanovitch — We embark 

 for the north — The Angara River — Yenesiesk — The Onjol and 

 her captain — Fellow-passengers — The "wide water" — Nasi- 

 morokoya — Vorogovo — The Kamin Pass — Midnight in the 

 forest ........ 1 



CHAPTER II 



A ramble in the forest — Verkne Imbatskaya — The Ostiaks of the 

 Yenesei — The black-throated ousel — The romance of the tele- 

 graph — Diffici;lties on the voyage — Monastir — Bird's-nesting 

 at Turukhansk — The pale thrush — The Kureika — The 

 Yenesei cuckoos — Lost in the forest — The willow island — 

 Igarka ........ 23 



CHAPTER III 



The taiga — The dusky ousel and the little bunting — The Tuugus — 

 Platina — Women merchants — Dudinka — The first sight of 

 the tundra — Krestova — The Yenesei fisheries — BreokofFsky 

 Ostrov — Stormbound — Arrival at Golchika — First impres- 

 sions — A Good Samaritan— Michael Petrovitch AntonofF . 45 



CHAPTER IV 



A morning theft — Cockroaches— Spring at Golchika — A dog sledge 

 — A trip to Och Marino — A Siberian household — The Eastern 

 golden plover — A change in the weather — Rough water on 

 the Yenesei — Return to Golchika . . . .68 



