148 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 
and a half, but no geese came. There were several pairs 
of red-necked phalaropes flying and swimming about, and 
calling shrilly ‘tweet, tweet.’ I could not find a nest. 
Returning at 4 a.m. I lay down to sleep in a hollow 
of a hillside. Very comfortably indeed I slept, for my 
sovik kept me warm in spite of the fog, frost, and a 
constant shower of little chips of hard ice. 
About nine o’clock it cleared up, and I cooked some 
Liebig for Hyland and myself. The men ate food which 
they had brought with them. 
There was a good deal of delay in getting off, because 
the reindeer had to be first brought in, and they had 
wandered far. My telescope came in very usefully here. 
For the Samoyeds had not the least idea where the deer 
were. Shabla went off with his adliurs in quite the 
wrong direction, and after scouring the country for some 
time, came ‘back rather glum. But meanwhile I had 
been up to the top of a hill, and after a good look round, 
spied the heads of two deer a long way off, for the main 
body were down ina hollow. So I put Shabla on the 
scent, and very soon he brought them in. 
In our care to avoid the more difficult parts of the 
hills we had dropped a good deal to the south of our 
line, so now we turned nearly due north, crossing again 
the hills we had traversed on foot, till we reached a point 
some five miles from the northern coast, and then turned 
west. Keeping this course we reached at 3.30 p.m. the 
mouth of the Gusina. 
