72 THE FOREST LANDS OF NORTHERN RUSSIA. 
lands, stretching toward the sunrise upwards of two 
thousand miles, are bound in icy chains for eight months 
in the twelve. 
‘In June, when the winter goes away suddenly, the 
slopes of a few favoured valleys grow green with reindeer 
moss; slight spects of verdure in a landscape which is 
even then dark with rock and grey with rienne. On this 
green moss the reindeer feed, and on these camels of the 
Polar Zone, the wild men of the country live,’ 
