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perpendicularly from the sea, and it is higher than the
eastern. The bay, which appears to be much larger than it
is represented on the maps, was covered with level ice,
only here and there a piece of ice covered with snow was
seen sticking up.

"As we were forced to desist from visiting the interior of
Kolyutschin Bay, we determined to go to the ground where
Yettugin's reindeer pastured. We therefore left the tent on
the evening of the 15th and travelled E.N.E. The warmth,
which had now commenced, began to make travelling over snow
fields difficult, the dogs sank to the stomach, and not
unfrequently we had to alight in order to help the poor
animals to climb the hills we were obliged to ascend.
Scarcely however had they come to the reindeer tracks
before even the most exhausted of them rushed along at the
top of their speed, which might be pleasant enough uphill,
but when they were coming down it was very dangerous,
because the slope nearly always ends with a steep
escarpment. We came once, without observing it, to the edge
of such a precipice, and if we had not succeeded in time in
slackening our speed a nice confused mass of men, dogs,
and sledges would have tumbled over it. In order to excite
their draught animals the Chukches avail themselves of
their dogs' inclination to run after the reindeer, and
during their journeys they endeavour to spur them on yet
more by now and then imitating the reindeer's cry. After
two or three hours travelling we fell in with the first
reindeer, and then by degrees with more and more, until
finally about 11 o'clock P.M. we came to a numerous herd,
tended by Yettugin. I applied to him, asking him to barter
a reindeer in good condition for a gun which I had brought
along with me. After various evasions Yettugin at length
promised to give us next day the reindeer for the gun. He
would not however himself, or with his own knife, kill the
reindeer, on which account I requested Dr. Almquist to give
it the _coup de grace_.

"In consequence of the soft state of the snow we were
obliged to defer the commencement of our return journey to
the evening of the 16th. We now travelled over the chain of
hills which unites Table Mount with Tenen, and descended
their northern steep slope towards an extensive plain,
studded for th