302 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 
‘They will never come now,’ he said; ‘very much ice, 
ship lost, yes, yes.’ 
I got to bed at 3.30, and slept right away till 9 o’clock, 
an unusual feat for me. 
And it does not seem that I did much of interest this 
day. I caught a great quantity of epkemeride by a pool, 
and-I found the crop of a young willow-grouse full of the 
buds or spores of saxzfraga cernua. Also, I opened my 
beetle box, and found to my sorrow that a beetle I had 
believed defunct had recovered and had eaten all the rest. 
August 14th.—Hyland still suffering from headache. 
I went round a small chain of lakes by myself, but saw 
little of importance. 
Little Wanka was very comical—the whole day he 
went stumping around in his father’s long boots, saying, 
‘Ahnglia, Ahnglia,’ every time he passed our tent door 
He meant he was like me, with my big boots. 
Two notes from my diary are— 
‘A barrel full of salted geese contains 300, and sells for 
ten roubles. The value of the barrel is two roubles.’ 
‘The two largest calves here are 34 months old, ze. 
they were born the first week in May. When ten 
months old they are entered to sleigh work, the five 
