EASTWARD ALONG THE TUNDRA m 
I no Russian whatever, so I am afraid neither gath¬ 
ered much information about the other. 
I have often wondered at the courteous willing¬ 
ness of the Russians and Chukches whom we met 
along our way to take entirely for granted our 
presence among them. They showed no imperti¬ 
nent curiosity and did not subject us to any un¬ 
pleasant inquisition; they required no custom¬ 
house examination, no passports, no letters of 
recommendation! We were not traders, yet we 
were obviously strangers with strange travelling 
gear, and it was hardly likely that we were taking 
a walk for our health. In more than one semi- 
civilized country shipwrecked mariners have from 
the earliest times been considered fair prey for the 
natives. We had our charts, to he sure, but ship¬ 
wrecked mariners who go ashore driving a team 
of dogs are not common, even in the Arctic. Yet 
all the way along we were received without ques¬ 
tion, greeted hospitably, made comfortable and 
guided on our way with no consideration of pay¬ 
ment; we might have been city cousins visiting 
around among country relatives. 
Cape North, which was first seen and named by 
the famous English voyager, Captain Cook, in the 
Resolution , in 1778, is a point of considerable im¬ 
portance on the Siberian coast. Of the eleven 
arangas several were occupied by deer men, the 
