ANCIENT CUUKOU OF THE OLD BELIEVEES. 



CHAPTER V. 



Ust-Zylma — Its streets — Its houses — Its manure — Its population — Its farms — Its 

 churches — Our quarters — The banks of the river — The Old Believers — Their 

 superstition — Their crosses — Hospitality of the officials — Shooting-parties — 

 Captain Arendt and Captain Engel — Snow shoes^Scareity of birds — The. snow- 

 bunting — Mealy redpole — Winter. 



Ust-Zylma* is a long, straggling village, lying on the 

 narrow strip of flat land, on the north and east bank of the 

 Petchora, where that river makes a sudden bend from west 



* In ' Purchas his Pilgrimes,' the 

 narrative of the voyage of Josias Logan, 

 who wintered in the valley of the 

 Petchoral in 1611, contains the follow- 

 ing description of this town : " Ust- 

 Zylma is a village of some thirtie or 



fortie houses, and standeth in the 

 height of 66° and 30 minutes. They 

 have corne growing there, both barley 

 and rycj and their b.irley is passing 

 faire and white almost as rice." 



