144 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 
‘Petchora or no, you go on, say I. ‘Kolguev is 
under the Governor of Archangel.’ — 
So they were very sulky, but had’ to go; and as we 
couldn’t go north-west, we went south-west,—a very sen- 
sible compromise. The country was much easier. We 
were indeed soon on the bogs, skirting those very hills 
along which we had come. 
Four hours of this brought us suddenly upon a second 
lot of Samoyeds, who had but just arrived at their halting 
place, and were pitching chooms. 
The head of these was one On Tipa. I write the 
word as it sounds ; but I have reasons for believing that 
this word is nothing but Antipas. And other names I 
could afterwards trace to Bible origin. Onaska is a 
diminutive or pet name for Anania, or as we say, Ananias 
—Mekolka for Nicholai or Nicholas. The Samoyeds 
have also a practice of adding ‘o’; thus Philip becomes 
Philipo, while Uano is Ivan. 
On Tipa was a fine-looking old man, with long grey 
hair and a general resemblance to Moses in the church 
windows. He was chocolate-coloured, whereas Uano 
was yellow. 
He gave us real tea, and we spread reindeer fat on 
bread for butter. I was much struck by his long train 
of sleighs, some of which carried boats. Afterwards 
I came to know On Tipa for the richest and most 
trustworthy man on the whole island. His district was 
the head-waters of the Pesanka, and he told me that 
