190 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 
The second hut had its complement of blubber in 
the entrance-room, but the inner part had been evidently 
used asa chapel. There were the Madonna and a saint 
or two, left cruelly alone. Before them hung their 
lamps with none to light them, and the gilt about their 
setting was all tarnished by the fogs. On the floor was 
a packet of incense, a bundle of tapers, a censer and a 
charcoal-heater—and this was about the sum. It was 
depressing. 
THE CHAPEL AT SCHAROK 
Outside it was more melancholy still. For here was a 
place of burial, but not railed off. Only there were 
many Russian crosses with legends and queer patterns, 
some fallen down. 
Foxes had burrowed into the graves; glaucous gulls 
sat on the crosses and scarcely moved at our approach. 
Seal-fat was everywhere ; in great lumps and smearings 
upon the grass, and on everything that lay about. 
