326 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 
itself. It is too square in shape. I calculated, as we 
drove round it, that it was about 1 mile wide and some 
mile and a half long. 
We found here drying grounds for fish, And when 
we were about half-way round we came upon the eldest 
of the Bulchikoff brothers, come to fetch away a barrel 
of salted fish. He said they were quite good; but they 
smelled horribly. These men will not take the trouble 
to salt their fish before it gets bad. The fish were sik, 
a kind of bream, and besides this, they told me, the lake 
held only goletz, which ran up into it from the sea. 
Goletz is a species of sa/mo or of coregonus. Iam not 
quite sure which. 
I inquired of Bulchikoff how deep the Kriva lake 
might be. He said, ‘My toorr—more big, yes, yes, —it 
was deeper than his toorr. But I wanted to know 
exactly. At last he laid his toorr down, and walked 
away from it two or three paces, and said, ‘ Two toorr— 
no, my big toorr, my little toorr, yes so, yes, yes.’ His 
was a twelve-foot toorr, and the small toor would be a 
ten-foot one. This would make the depth about twenty- 
two feet. 
So we left, and crossing the head of the river where it 
leaves the lake, wound round the lake itself. I saw a 
glaucous gull hammering at something by the side. It 
rose as we approached, and flying off left behind it a fine 
sik dead on the stones. It had its guts torn out, but 
was quite fresh and clean, weighing, I should say, two 
