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NUNAMO. 
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When we left Pitlekaj, vegetation there was still far from 
having reached its full development, but at Nunamo the strand- 
bank was gay with an exceedingly rich magnificence of colour. 
On an area of a few acres Dr. Kjellman collected here more than 
a hundred species of flowering plants, among which were a con¬ 
siderable number that he had not before seen on the Chukch 
Peninsula. Space does not permit me to give another list of 
plants, but in order that the reader may have an idea of the 
great difference in the mode of growth which the same species 
may exhibit under the influence of different climatal conditions, I 
give here a drawing of the Alpine whitlow grass {JDraha alpina, 
L.) from St. Lawrence Bay. It would not, perhaps, be easy to 
recognise in this drawing the species delineated on page 341 of 
vol. i.; the globular form which the plant assumed on the 
shore of Cape Chelyuskin exposed to the winds of the Polar 
Sea, has here, in a region protected from them, completely 
disappeared. 
At the rocky headlands there were still, however, considerable 
snowdrifts, and from the heights we could see that considerable 
masses of ice were still drifting along the Asiatic side of 
Behring’s Straits. During an excursion to the top of one of the 
neighbouring mountains. Dr. Stuxberg found the corpse of a 
native laid out on a stone-setting of the form common among 
the Chukches. Alongside the dead man lay a broken percussion 
gun, spear, arrows, tinder-box, pipe, snow-shade, ice-sieve, and 
various other things which the departed was considered to be in 
want of in the part of the Elysian fields set apart for Chukches. 
The corpse had lain on the place at least since the preceding 
summer, but the pipe was one of the clay pipes that I had 
caused to be distributed among the natives. It had thus been 
placed there long after the proper burial. 
Anxious as I was to send off soon from a telegraph station 
some re-assuring lines to the home-land, because I feared that 
a general uneasiness had already begun to be felt for the fate of 
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