ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Old Russian Silver Cross .... vi 



Grey Plover 3 



Sledging through the Snow 7 



Little Stint H 



Samoyede Knives ........... 2O 



Ust-Zylma 21 



Old Russian Silver Cross 35 



Ancient Church of the Old Believers . 3 6 



Old Russian Silver Cross 47 



Chooms of the Samoyedes ......... 4^ 



Lassoing Reindeer 55 



Rein Rests 6l 



Old Russian Silver Cross 67 



A Spill in the Snow .......... 68 



Old Russian Silver Cross 74 



Shooting Wild Geese 75 



The Banks of the Zylma ......... 82 



Difficulties with Snow-shoes 90 



Old Russian Silver Cross 96 



Willow -Grouse ........... 97 



Old Russian Silver Cross ......... 106 



The Flooded Banks of the River 107 



The Delta of the Petchora 117 



Ploughing at Ust-Zylma 132 



A lexievka from the Tundra . . . . . . 133 



Old Russian Silver Cross 142 



Stanavialachta ........... *43 



Grey Plover's Nest and Young 149 



A Swan's Nest I 5 I 



Kuya 161 



Watching Grey Plovers through a Cloud of Mosquitoes . . . 164 



Mosquito Veil J 7 & 



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