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copy of it to be posted outside his house. He also gathered the boys 

 together and gave them strict orders to touch nothing in or around 

 our tents. I may say here that his orders were effective, for we missed 

 nothing during our stay, although the people were constantly passing 

 the tents on their way to attend to the reindeer, and the camp was 

 left unprotected for hours every day. 



The man showed us into a comfortable little sitting-room, in 

 which a wooden bedstead with red curtains occupied one corner, while 

 another was filled by a brick stove quite as large as the bed ; still 

 sufficient room remained to afford seats for seven of us. The walls, 

 neatly papered with even a frieze round the top, were hung with 

 framed photographs of the children, friends, &c., and some coloured 

 prints. Everything about the place was scrupulously clean, and from 

 what I saw of the mistress I should be sorry for those who made it 

 otherwise. 



After our interview we went up on the hills on the west side of 

 the river, a part I had not previously visited. On reaching a point 

 opposite the large moraine described by Colonel Feilden in 1895 

 (" Beyond Petsora Eastward," App. F., p. 247), I found what appeared 

 to be a continuation of it, extending over the hills for some distance ; 

 at any rate the two formed parts of one almost straight line. If this 

 be correct, the glacier must have filled up the entire valley between, 

 besides covering the hills on both sides. The ends of the moraines 

 were nearly two miles apart, but the whole of the intervening space 

 was composed of hillsides too steep for moraines to rest upon, so the 

 stones carried down on that portion of the glacier are now probably 

 some of those forming the banks of the river — far too large to be 

 water-borne. 



The birds noted were a pair of -Wheatears, two pairs of Golden 

 Plover, and two of Dotterel; the last had evidently selected their 

 nesting-ground, and one bird pretended to be lame, but a careful 

 search only revealed an empty nest. 



Salmon seemed to be coming up the river more freely, as the 



