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and the beauty of the flowers is very striking. The grasses, 

 of which there are a number of species, grow very rank in 

 favored places. The summer season of eight weeks, when 

 there are no frosts, together with the moist atmosphere, 

 makes it possible for the people to grow turnips, beets, and 

 carrots in their small, carefully prepared gardens. The mos- 

 quitoes, which are the worst feature of life in Northeast 

 Siberia, arrive the first week in July and simply dominate the 

 country for one month. It is impossible to obtain a minute's 

 rest from their attacks during that time. 



On the morning of June 16 the first ship of the season 

 arrived, which brought me the first letters and news from the 

 outside world that I had received for ten months. The sum- 

 mer passed quickly, and on August 26 the SS. 'Girin,' from 

 Anadyr, arrived with Mr. Bogoras's collection aboard, he 

 having left the ship at Petropavlovsk, and was detained fifteen 

 days at Gichiga, owing to inclement weather, in discharging 

 her freight. As this was the vessel that was expected to make 

 the next and last trip of the season to Gichiga, and was then 

 more than one month overdue, the captain assured me that 

 it was improbable that there would be another vessel that 

 season, and as the migration was nearly over I decided on 

 September 7 to ship on the 'Girin,' and packed up my collec- 

 tion and closed out my outfit on the 8th and left for the ship 

 that night, arriving there early next morning. Sailed at noon 

 on September 9, stopping at Ola, Okhotsk, and Ay an, and 

 reached Vladivostok on September 28. Found Mr. Bogoras 

 there, and we spent the next two weeks in repacking and 

 arranging our collection for shipment. After several days' 

 delay we finally succeeded in securing a permit from the 

 Governor-General of Eastern Siberia and the constructing 

 engineer to go over the then uncompleted railway, and on 

 October 14 Mr. Bogoras and myself left Vladivostok for 

 Russia. I was the first foreigner that had been favored with 

 a pass over this route, and I was fully repaid for the time I 

 had spent in Vladivostok in obtaining it by the time we 

 gained in crossing Siberia by this route. Our papers were 

 honored at every place along the line, and we were hurried 



