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Many medusze had been left by the tide, and at 
the head of a small inlet some mollusca’ were very 
abundant. 
The -boat I found quite safe, although the tide had 
been unusually high. Now, I thought, we can walk 
down until we reach the Pugrinoy on the gulf. Not so; 
after another mile or so of the sand-banks we were 
suddenly brought up by an absolutely impassable river 
estuary. 
But we followed up the bank by its various windings, 
until at last, in spite of very deep mud, we were again on 
the mainland. 
Here I found a reeve with two little downy young 
ones. 
So I walked on to the south-west until all of a sudden 
we spied three sleighs coming over the tundra from the 
north. We sat on a hummock and waited. 
The sleighs hesitated and stopped short. After a 
pause one of them came on alone. It arrived—our dirty 
little Shabla driving four reindeer cows. 
He was far more pleased to see us than I to see him, 
for I had never cared much for this tiresome, sly little 
1 These included the following widely distributed Northern forms, viz. :— 
GasTRoPoDA—Chrysodomus despectus (Linn. ). 
Buccinum scalariforme Beck. 
Natica grenlandica Beck. 
Margarita undulata Sowerby. 
PELECYPODA—Cardium grenlandicum Chemn. 
Mya truncata Linn. 
Macoma balthica (Linn.). 
Mytilus edulis Linn. 
