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waistcoat (of all things) over his shirt, and with his long 
black hair and thin moustache looked just like a super 
in Hamlet. 
We entered to-day on a new phase of reindeer life. 
For the first time the fly appeared (Hypoderma tarand?), 
known to the Samoyeds as ‘ Pi-liur,’ and to the Russians 
as ‘Orwot.’ The first I noticed was probing the cracks 
in my boat with its ovipositor; no doubt the grease 
I. REINDEER FLY (Ayfoderma tarandt) 2. SAME, WITH OVIPOSITOR EXTENDED 
3. LARVA OF SAME 4¢ ADVANCED LARVA OF SAME 
would make a fair nursery. This fly, which has a 
general resemblance to a humble-bee, lays its eggs on 
the back of the deer, where it is out of reach, and these 
eggs develop into larve (‘Oograh’ in Russian, ‘ Sivia’ in 
Samoyed), which, burrowing into the creature, worry it 
terribly. The deer have therefore to be often caught and 
examined ; and this catching is done with the ‘ di-zha.’ 
The di-zha is simply a lasso or lariat of plaited hide, 
the noose of which runs through a block of reindeer 
horn. I practised throwing it ata stump. The Samoyeds 
