230 BOATS SEWN TOGETHER. 



fastened together by metal nails or rivets, had 

 been seioed together with twigs or withies of 

 twisted birch, and was even then surprisingly- 

 strong, the birchen withies remaining quite 

 sound and undecayed. 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-office 

 to say where he was. On entering the door, 

 I pointed out to Kennedy my name and that 

 of my yacht, which — more JBritmmorwm — I 

 had engraved 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 

 Ave 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 



