Identifier : iceboundonkolgue00trevuoft ( find matches )
Title : Ice-bound on Kolguev : a chapter in the exploration of Arctic Europe to which is added a record of the natural history of the island
Year : 1895 ( 1890s )
Authors : Trevor-Battye, Aubyn Bernard Rochfort
Subjects : Natural history -- Arctic regions Kolgujef (Russia) Polar regions
Publisher : Westminster : A. Constable
Contributing Library : Robarts - University of Toronto
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obediently that I fairly wanted to smackhim on the back with All right, old fellow, no bonesbroken over that. But I felt that this impression mightbe of lasting use in case we should ever have to leaveour things unguarded. So he crept away to his choom. I was sorry, and instinctively knew I had lost ground.If they once began to fear me they would retire intothemselves with all the old reserve they showed at first,and then good-bye to my Samoyed studies. This camehome to me forcibly at breakfast-time. Instead of littleWanka coming running down with Ortow Ahnglia!at the top of his voice, as he usually did, there comes oldUano very solemnly, with a wooden bowl of goose andsalt and bread. This he offers to me as though I werethe orreat ood Num himself. I took it for this once. The heat beat us all. The men and women put offtheir skins for the first time, and came out in red shirtswith the knife-belt round the waist, and the shirt tailsoutside in Russian fashion. Young Yelisei had a green
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<- O o pia THE GOOSING 237 waistcoat (of all things) over his shirt, and with his lono-black hair and thin moustache looked just like a superin Hamlet. We entered to-day on a new phase of reindeer life.For the first time the fly appeared (Hypoderma tarandi),known to the Samoyeds as Pi-liur, and to the Russiansas Orwot. The first I noticed was probing the cracksin my boat with its ovipositor; no doubt the grease

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