230 BOATS SEWN TOGETHER. 



fastened together by metal nails or rivets, had 

 heen seicecl together with twigs or withies of 

 twisted birch, and was even then surprisingly 

 strong, the birchen withies remaining quite 

 sound and unclecayed. This construction of 

 boat is, I believe, commonly used in Siberia 

 and Russian Lapland- 



We arrived in the " Anna Louisa " off Hval- 

 fiske Point on the evening of the 23rd, and were 

 surprised not to find the yacht in the harbour ; 

 so we took a boat and landed to see if Mr. 

 Wood had left any letters in the post-ofl&ce 

 to say where he was. On entering the door, 

 I pointed out to Kennedy my name and that 

 of my yacht, which — more Britannoriim — I 

 had eno-raved on the lintel in letters three 

 inches long on my visit the previous year. 

 Hung up by a rope-yarn to one of the ceiling- 

 beams we found a letter from Mr. Wood, 

 saying that he had been obliged by the gale 

 of the 19th and 20th to leave that harbour 

 and take refuge in another, a few miles to 

 the north. As the night was fine, Kennedy 

 and myself decided on walking there, and so 

 we sent our boat's-crew on board the sloop 

 and set off alone, thinking the distance was 

 only two or three miles, and that we might 



