CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE I. 



John Wolley — Unknown breeding-grounds — Birds of Archangel and 

 Lapland — Voyages to the Petohora in the seventeenth century — 

 Schrenck's visit in 1837 — Gastrin's visit in 1842 — Keyserling's visit 

 in 1843— Pelzam's visit in 1874 — Hoffmansegg's visit about 1850— 

 Outfit — Letters of introduction .. .. .. .. .. Page 1 



CHAPTEE IL 



London to St. Petersburg — Mode of heating railway carriages — Frozen 

 Market at St. Petersburg — Bohemian waxwings — Moscow to Vologda — 

 M. Verakin — Sledging from Vologda to Archangel — The Temschik — 

 Post-houses — The Samovar — ^Angliski Euss — Modes of yoking horses 

 — State of the roads — ^Weather — -TraflSc — -Scenery — Birds — Arrival at 

 Archangel.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 7 



CHAPTEE III. 



The white city Archangel — ^Decline of its commerce —Cheapness of living 

 — Peter Kotzoff — Father Inokentia — Samoyede vocabulary — Their 

 sledges — Their appearance — Samoyede names of birds — Their national 

 songs — -Election of their chiefs — Their ignorance of doctors or medicinal 

 plants — Piottucb — Birds — The weather — Hasty departure from Arch- 

 angel .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 15 



CHAPTEE IV. 



Bad roads — Postal service in winter and summer — -Ohangeahle weather — 

 Scenery — Pinega and Kuloi rivers — Snow plains — The forests — ^Birds 

 — Samoyedes — Mezfo — Polish exile — ^Snow-buntings — How caught — 

 Jackdaws — We leave Mez^n — The weather — Scenery — The Mez6n 



