SAMOYEDES ERECTING A CHOOM 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



FROM DUDINKA TO GOLCHIKA. 



The Tundra — The Dried-up Dudinka — Reception by the Birds — Variety 

 of Birds — The Chetta River — Samoyede Chooms — The Broad Nose of 

 Tolstanoss — Second Visit to tlie Tundra — Asiatic Golden Plover's Nest 

 — A Night on the Tundra — The Dunlin — News of SiderofTs Schooner — 

 Winter in Siberia — The Fishing Station — The King of the Samoyedes 

 — Egg of the Red-breasted Goose — Brekoffsky Island — Eggs of the 

 Mountain Accentor — Various Eggs — Wearied out — Ugliness of the 

 Natives — Land on the Horizon. 



We cast anchor soon after midnight on the 12th of July. 

 I went on shore in the morning to ascertain what birds 

 were to be found on the tundra. We cHmbed up the 

 steep bank, and found ourselves in a wild-looking country, 

 full of lakes, swamps, and rivers, a dead flat in some 

 places, in others undulating, even hilly. This was the 

 true Siberian tundra, brilliant with flowers, swarming 



