luted every reindeer,
they were allowed to stroke his hands with their noses. He
on his part took every reindeer by the horn and examined
it in the most careful way. After the inspection was ended
at a sign given by the master the whole herd wheeled round
and returned in closed ranks, with the old reindeer in
front, to the previous day's pasture.

"The whole scene made a very favourable impression on us,
it was not the grim hard savage showing in a coarse and
barbarous way his superiority over the animals, but the
good master treating his inferiors kindly, and having a
friendly word for each of them. Here good relations
prevailed between man and the animals. Rotschitlen himself
was a stately young man, with an intelligent appearance
and a supple handsome figure. His dress, of exceedingly
good cut and of uncommonly fine reindeer skin, sat close
to his well-grown frame, and gave us an opportunity of
seeing his graceful and noble bearing, which was most
observable when he was in motion.

"On our repeating our proposal to purchase reindeer we
again met with a refusal, on which we struck our tent and
commenced our return journey. We came on board on the 18th
March at 3 o'clock P.M., after a march of four hours and
three-quarters.

"The way to the reindeer camp rose and fell gently. The
snow was hard and even, so that we could go forward
rapidly. On the way out four foxes and some ravens were
seen. At one place we found a large number of lemming
passages excavated through the snow in an oblique
direction towards the ground. Most of them were scratched
up by foxes. The descent to an untouched lemming nest was
cylindrical, and four and a half centimetres in diameter.
During both days we had snow, and a thick and foggy
atmosphere, so that we could see only a short distance
before us, we did not however go astray, thanks to the
good eyes and strongly developed sense of locality of our
guide, the native."

_Brusewitz's and Nordquist's Excursion to Nutschoitjin_

Of this Nordquist gives the following account:--

"On the 20th March, at 9 o'clock A.M. Lieut Brusewitz,
boatswain Lustig, the Norwegian hunters Johnsen and
Sievertsen, the Chukch Notti, and I, left the _Vega_. Our
equipment, which consisted of provisions for eight days,
cooking apparatus, canvas ten