CONTENTS xiii 



CHAPTER XXX. 



WAITING FOR SPRING. 



Scarcity of Birds — Arrival of Ostiaks — Snow-spectacles — Ostiak Dress — Poverty 

 of the Ostiaks — Schwanenberg goes in search of Graphite — Ostiak Ideas con- 

 cerning the Covering of the Hair — Hazel-grouse — Difference of Tungusk and 

 Ostiak Hair-dressing — The Weather — Superstition about shooting Crows — A 

 Token of coming Spring — Scarcity of Glass — Double Windows — Geographical 

 Distribution of the Samoyedes — Of the Yuraks — Of the Ostiaks — Of the Dolgans 

 —Of the Yakuts— Of the Tungusks . .... Pp. 304-310 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



THE CHANGING SEASONS. 



Erection of an Ostiak Choom — Ornithological Results of the Week — An Ostiak 

 Feast — Comparisons of Ostiaks and Tungusks — Snowy Owl — Our First Rain 

 in the Arctic Circle — Further Signs of approaching Summer — Northern 

 Marsh-tit — Ornithological Results of the Third Week— White-tailed Eagle — 

 Snowstorm — A solitary Barn Swallow — A Wintry Day — A Fox — The River 

 Rises — Five Roubles for an Eagle — What became of the Roubles — Visit from 

 our Ostiak Neighbour — A Baby Fox — Our Two Babies — A Crow's Nest — The 

 Blue-rumped Warbler Pp. 31 1-320 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



THE BREAK-UP OF THE ICE. 



Weary Waiting for Summer — Ravens — More Ostiak Neighbours — The Ship 



breaks her Bands of Ice — A Hen-harrier — Appearance of the Rising River — 



Premature Migration of Geese — My Week's Work — Old Story of Thaw in the 



Sun and Frost in the Shade — Last Day of May — Revolutions in the Ice — A 



Range of Ice Mountains — Signs of Summer — Arrival of the Common Gull and 



of the White Wagtail — Ice Breaking up — An Unprepared-for Contingency — 



Dangerous Position — Driving along with the Ice — Loss of the Ship's Rudder 



— Preparations to Abandon the Ship — Babel of Birds — We Desert the Ship — 



On Board Again — The Thames steered intotheCreek — Enormous Pressure of the 



Ice — The Battle of the Yenesei — "Calving" of Icebergs — The Final March Past 



Pp. 321-334 

 CHAPTER XXXIII. 



THE MARCH-PAST OF THE MIGRANTS. 



Arrival of Migratory Birds — Wagtails— The Thames Afloat once more — More 



Birds Arrive — An Ostiak Funeral — Birds Arrive Fast — The Tungusk Ice 



Coming Down — New Birds — Pintail Snipe — Mosquitoes on the Wing 



Pp- 335-342 

 CHAPTER XXXIV. 



A BUSY WEEK ON THE KUREIKA. 



Four Species added to my List — Dotterel — Rapid Rise of the River— Open Water 



— Arrival of the Great Snipe — Pallas's Sand-martin — Common Sandpiper 



Characteristics of the Native Tribes — Ship Repairs — Pine Bunting — Ice lost 

 in the Forest — Glinski's Industry — Ruby-throated Warbler — Waxwings — Nut- 

 crackers — Death of a Tungusk — Funeral Rites — Diseases of the Natives 



Their Improvidence — Uselessness of the Priests . . . Pp. 343-352 



