INDEX 
ABEILOH, 341. 
Accordian, 335. 
Adliurs (a light sleigh), 141, 216. 
‘ Adski’ (Samoyed baby), 230. 
Anchorage off Kolguev, 35, 36, 46, 51. 
Anchorage off Scharok, 354. 
André, 335. 
Anka (Samoyed cook), 339, 354, 360. 
Archangel, 373. 
—— hopes of obtaining passage from, 
Archangel, Governor of, his letter, 127, 
144, 336. 
—— ice-bound, 347. 
Arctic Circle, 10. 
Arnoh (native boat), 215. 
Arrows, making of, 276. 
Artimista, common, 277. 
Astragalus, 49. 
Awh (Kolguev); 218. 
Axe, English, Samoyeds’ appreciation of, 
51. 
—— given to Mekolka, 352, 
Bar, river, 52. 
Barakoska Nos, 219, 293, 303. 
Barakova river, 184, 322. 
Barometer, 357. 
Alexis’ use of, 352. 
fluctuations of, 352. 
Baroshika river, 111, 184, 212, 246. 
Baseball, 283. 
Beaches, old, 289. 
Beacons, traces of, seen, 44. 
Bear, 276. 
Bears’ skulls, 45. 
Bee, humble-, yellow-ringed, 48, 307. 
Beetle demolishes others, 302. 
water, 119. 
Beluga whale, 58. 
Bergen, 6. 
Betrothal of Ustynia, 307. 
Birch bark, 193. 
— creeping, 115. 
Birds— 
Brambling, 13. 
Bunting, lapland, 48, 114, 118, 250. 
— snow, 20, 65, 91, 103, 107, 191, 
199, 252. 
Cormorant, common, 20. 
Birds—continued, 
Curlew, 5. 
Diver, 199. 
black-throated, 175, 209. 
red-throated, 11, 48, 78, 85, 183, 
203, 204, 247, 250, 293. 
—  white-billed great northern, 10, 
78. 
Dotterel, 170, 174. 
Duck, eider, common, 7, 8, II, 19, 
23, 265. 
—— —— king, 21, 31, 43, 205, 239, 
256. 
— long-tailed, 31, 43, 82, 84, 106, 
115, 118, 181, 192, 195, 201, 204, 
205. 
— Scaup, 181. 
Scoter, common, 254. 
Widgeon, 48. 
Dunlins, 42, 205, 202, 359. 
— black-breasted, 182. 
Falcon, 199. 
—— peregrine, 73, 91, 150, 325. 
Fieldfare, 14, 15, 41. 
Godwits, 43. 
Goosander, 254. 
Goose, 83, 84, 118, 150, 220, 222, 225, 
263, 286 
— bean, 224. 
bernacle, 86, 99. 
—— brent, 197, 224, 226, 257, 300. 
—— grey, 79, 116, 220, 222. 
—— white-fronted, 207, 224, 250. 
Geese, wild, 178. 
Grouse, willow, 13, 43, 48, 70, 76, 83, 
II5, 194, 205, 265, 286, 287, 293, 
02, 
Guillemots, 20, 
black, 22. 
Gulls, 11, 268. 
—— black-back, lesser, 7, 18, 22, 23. 
— glaucous, 10, 48, 116, 190, 195, 
200, 207, 247, 253, 264, 326, 355. 
—— herring, 18, 20, 23, 201, 247, 355. 
—— ivory, 153. 
—— kittiwakes, 7, 17, 18, 20. 
Lark, shore, 108. 
Merlin, 307. 
Owl, snowy (Heinibchur), 77, 114, 153, 
246, 247, 249, 299, 303, 330, 331. 
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