w days to penetrate as far as the bottom of
Kolyutschin Bay, which differs greatly in its form, from
that which Russian, English, and German maps give to it.
It is not improbable that it is almost connected by lakes,
lagoons, and rivers with St. Lawrence Bay or Metschigme
Bay, whose inner parts are not yet investigated.

"After we left the lagoons at Pitlekaj and Yinretlen, the
coast began gradually to rise by escarpments, each about
five metres in height. The plains between the escarpments
are full of lagoons or marshes. Such a terrain continued
until, about five hours' way from the vessel, we came to a
height of twenty-seven metres. From this point the
terrace-formations cease, and the terrain then consists of
a large number of ranges of heights, intersected by
rivulets, which during the snow-melting season must be very
much flooded. Seven or eight hours' way from the vessel we
met with such a rivulet, which farther to the S.S.E. unites
with another which runs between two rocky escarpments
twenty metres high. On one of these we pitched our tent, in
order to draw and examine some hills which were already
divested of the winter dress they had worn for nine long
months. On the top of one of the hills we found marks of
two recently-struck tents, which probably belonged to a
reindeer Chukch, who had now settled halfway between
Pitlekaj and Table Mount upon a chain of heights which
appears to separate the Irgunnuk lagoon from the rocky
eastern shore of Kolyutschin Bay. At our resting place we
found a large number of reindeer horns and a heap of broken
bones.

"After resuming our journey we came in a short time to the
foot of Table Mount, whose height I reckoned at 180 meters.
It slopes gently to the west and south (about 10 deg.),
but more steeply to the east and north (about 15 deg.).
The animal world there showed great activity. In less than
an hour we saw more than a dozen foxes that ran up and down
the hills and circled round us, as if they ran with a line.
Fortunately for them they kept at a respectful distance from
our doctor's sure gun.

"On the other side of Table Mount the ground sinks
regularly towards Kolyutschin Bay. Here for a while we
sought in vain for Yettugin's tent, in which we intended to
pass the night, and which had been fixed upon as