SAMOYEDES ERECTING A CHOOM 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



FROM DUDINKA TO GOLCHIKA. 



The Tundra The Dried-up Dudinka Reception by the Birds Variety 

 of Birds The Chetta River Samoyede Chooms The Broad Nose of 

 Tolstanoss Second Visit to the Tundra Asiatic Golden Plover's Nest 

 A Night on the Tundra The Dunlin News of Sideroff's Schooner 

 Winter in Siberia The Fishing Station The King of the Samoyedes 

 Egg of the Red-breasted Goose Brekoffsky Island Eggs of the 

 Mountain Accentor Various Eggs Wearied out Ugliness of the 

 Natives Land on the Horizon. 



WE cast anchor soon after midnight on the I2th of July. 

 I went on shore in the morning to ascertain what birds 

 were to be found on the tundra. We climbed up the 

 steep bank, and found ourselves in a wild-looking country, 

 full of lakes, swamps, and rivers, a dead flat in some 

 places, in others undulating, even hilly. This was the 

 true Siberian tundra, brilliant with flowers, swarming 



