YURAK HUNTER 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 



DOWN RIVER TO DUDINKA. 



Wild Flowers Willow-warbler's Nest Windy Weather Tracks of a 

 Bear in the Sand A Snipe's Nest Nest of the Arctic Willow-warbler 

 The Captain and His Crew British Pluck and Blunder On the Way 

 again Measuring the Footprints of Swans The River Bank Pur- 

 chasing Costumes of the Various Races Manner of Hunting the Sable 

 Coal from the Tundras. 



THE following day I went on shore for a few hours in the 

 morning. The country was very flat, covered with 

 :stunted forests of birch, willow, and alder : pines rose in 

 the distance, grass had already grown as high as our 

 Iknees, and wild flowers of various kinds were in full 



