THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
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people, a collection of dirty Samoyed tents. There is, besides, a 
little church, where, as at several places along the shore, votive 
crosses have been erected. The church is a wooden building, 
divided by a partition wall into two parts, of which the inner, 
the church proper, is little more than two and a half metres in 
height and about five metres square. On the eastern wall during 
CHURCH OF ClIABAROVA. 
After a iiliotograiih by Ij. Palaiider. 
the time the region is inhabited, there is a large number of 
sacred pictures placed there for the occasion by the hunters. One 
of them, which represented St. Nicholas, was very valuable, the 
material being embossed silver gilt. Before the lamps hung 
large dinted old copper lamps or rather light-holders, resem¬ 
bling inverted Byzantine cupolas, suspended by three chains. 
