ations made during the
journey, the highest summit we visited had a height of 197
metres."

_Lieutenant Bove's Account of an Excursion to Najtskaj and Tjapka._

"On the 19th April, at 4 o'clock A.M. the hunter Johnsen
and I started on a short excursion eastward along the
coast, with a view to pay a visit to the much frequented
fishing station Najtskaj, where our old friends from
Pitlekaj had settled. We had a little sledge which we
ourselves drew, and which was laden with provisions for
three days and some meteorological and hydrographical
instruments.

"At 6 o'clock A.M. we reached Rirajtinop, where we found
Notti, a serviceable, talented, and agreeable youth. The
village Rirajtinop, which formerly consisted of a great
many tents, now had only one tent, Notti's, and it was
poor enough. It gave the inhabitants only a slight
protection against wind and cold. Among household articles
in the tent I noticed a face-mask of wood, less shapeless
than those which according to Whymper's drawings are found
among the natives along the river Youcon, in the territory
of Alaska, and according to Dr. Simpson among the
West-Eskimo. I learned afterwards that this mask came from
Paek, Behring's Straits, whither it was probably carried
from the opposite American shore.

[Illustration: THE SLEEPING CHAMBER IN A CHUKCH TENT.
(After a drawing by the seaman Hansson.) ]

"The village Irgunnuk lies from three to four hundred
metres from Rirajtinop, and consists of five tents, one of
which two days before had been removed from Yinretlen. The
tents are as usual placed on earthy eminences, and have if
possible the entrance a couple of paces from some steep
escarpment, manifestly in order that the door opening may
not be too much obstructed with snow. I reckon the
population of Irgunnuk at forty persons.

"Off this village the ice is broken up even close to the
land into _torosses_, five to six metres high, which form
a chain which closely follows the shore for a distance of
five to six hundred metres to the eastward. The coast from
Irgunnuk to Najtskaj runs in a straight line, is low, and
only now and then interrupted by small earthy eminences,
which all bear traces of old dwellings. Each of these
heights has its special name: first Uelkantinop, then
Tiumgatti, and lastly Tiungo