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throw it underhand, and not so well as the cowboys with 
their overhand throw. The deer are brought up by the 
dogs and the adliurs, and are then divided into two lots. 
The cows and calves are constantly bolting from one 
side to the other as the men creep after them, and ona 
favourable chance the di-zha is thrown. A calf or young 
deer makes a fine struggle, and takes a lot of holding, 
but very often the cows, from having been often caught 
before, come in to hand without any or with little resist- 
ance. 
The poor deer tormented by the fly rushed all over 
the place, scuts up, snorting and grunting. 
The musquitoes were bad to-day, and gnats were in 
clouds. I think the Samoyed name for the musquito is 
so good—‘nyanink’, they call it, from the noise and its 
stab, ‘Nya’ is its singing, and then ‘nink,’ and in goes 
its horrid little stab. 
However, at 11.30 we left again for goose creek. 
First the sleighs were loaded on the island, and then 
the geese were brought across to the mainland and 
cached. 
The turf cut round with the axe, where the cloudberry 
grew thickest, was torn up with the hands; then the 
geese were stood on their tails with the heads tucked in, 
till the girls had made a circular group some three or 
four yards across. Then the turfs were rolled back on 
them a double layer, and the packing was complete. 
‘Dorndaftsa come hungry now, and dorndaftsa go 
