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deer tracks, but of course they were only tliose of the 

 Samoyecles' tame reindeer. This is the land of the 

 Samoyedes — and oh but it is desolate and mournful! 

 The only one of us that bagged anything was the 



THE PLAIN OF YALMAL 



( By Otto Sindiiig, from a Photograph ) 



botanist. Beautiful tiowers smiled to us here and there 

 among the sand - mounds — the one message from a 

 brighter world in this land of fogs. We went far in over 

 the flats, but came only to sheets of water, with low spits 

 running out into them, and ridges between. We often 

 heard the cry of loons on the water, but could never 

 catch sight of one. All these lakelets were of a remark- 

 able, exactly circular conformation, with steep banks all 



