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mouth, and then moved down to the southern extreme. 
Here we found three old isba and three ombara. One 
of the isba had a fine brick oven. The bricks for 
COMMON WINTER-GREEN 
(Pyrola minor L.) 
Found by the Pugrinoy. 
this, Alexander told me, had been 
brought the whole way from the Pet- 
chora by his brother who was dead. 
Alexander is now guardian to the 
brother’s little boy, whose reindeer 
are those tended by Marrk. 
But the feature of the Pugrinoy 
mouth is a very nice little chapel 
which was set up many years ago by 
Alexis (who owned the 10,000 rein- 
deer). 
Now Mekolka had come with us, 
and he, On Tipa, and Alexander 
spent a whole hour in lighting candles 
before the ‘ikona’ and in getting the 
incense to burn. The candles, which 
were stuck on by their melted bottoms, 
kept tumbling down, and then Alex- 
ander would cross himself many times 
and say a prayer of apology, the two 
Samoyeds standing behind him like 
acolytes, and copying his every movement.’ At last all 
went well and the place was thoroughly censed. 
1 There was something singularly grotesque in this Rimmon-worship—something 
quaintly child-like in the idea of these poor Samoyeds, with their little idols all the 
