DOING ROBINSON CRUSOE AT DVOINIK. 



CHAPTEK XXI. 



Trip to Kuya— The prahms — Travelling in a rosposki — ^The birds we saw — Arrival 

 of the Triad at Alexievka — We win over the manager — ^The Ino — Doing Robin- 

 son Crusoe in a wrecked ship— Nest of the long-tailed duck — Our first little 

 stint's nest — The tundra — Sunset and sunrise — Little stint's eggs — ^The tundra 

 near Bolvanski Bucht — Phalaropes — Interior of the tundra — Change of plumage 

 in phalaropes — An early morning start — Confusion of time — ^The snowy owl — 

 Two more nests of little stint — A march of geese on the tundra — ^An old grave. 



A DAY or two after our return from the Golievski islands, a 

 chance suddenly turned up of making a trip up stream to 

 Kuya. The rafts, which ought by this time to have reached 

 Alexievka, had not arrived, and ill-natured rumours of their 

 having run aground were brought down by some fishermen. 

 The manager of the company had also run out of various 



