PREFACE 
Many like to read of travels in new or curious places 
who are little interested in scientific results. So it has 
seemed wise to relegate these to a separate part. For the 
rest, this is a journal, for the greater part put historically, 
where the various sides of the life of our island fall into 
the place where we knew them as part of any day. 
To Colonel H. W. Feilden—Arctic Naturalist and 
unfailing friend to every beginner in the same field— 
belongs my first thought of going to Kolguev. I feel that 
I can never be grateful enough to him for lessons out of 
his great experience and wide research, so generously 
and untiringly given. 
I want also sincerely to thank many other kind friends 
and distinguished men for that ungrudged advice and 
help which is so real an encouragement. 
Especially my thanks are due to Clements R. Markham, 
C.B., F.R.S., Professor Alfred Newton, F.R.S., Mr. P. L. 
Sclater, F.R.S., Dr. Albert Giinther, F.R.S., Dr. Edward 
B. Tylor, F.R.S., Mr. William Carruthers, F.R.S., Dr. 
Bowdler Sharpe, Mr. Lamont, Mr. Raymond Tucker, 
Mr. Howard Saunders, Mr. Henry Seebohm, Mr. 
Harvie-Brown, and Mr. Edmund Meade-Waldo. 
