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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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e mudflats. They are nine feet long, witha three and a half feet beam. You are to understand that the chooms were placedon a circular sandy plateau, of which there are many onthe tundra ; and that such places are always chosen, whenpossible, for the following reasons. There is a goodview from them, so that the reindeer can be kept muchin sight; they are dry and healthy ; and from the hard-ness of the ground are well adapted to the practice ofsuch exercises as I shall describe in their place. Now all was ready for the deer. The team of fivefast and strong bucks which had been staked out by thechoom all night was harnessed to an adliurs. One suchteam is always kept up in this way in order that thewhipper-in may have them ready to his hand. Mekolka is to take this team and bring the deer up.Off he goes at score, followed by some of the dogs. ButI have never introduced you to the dogs. Latori was king of the pack. He was an old whitedog, with one eye only, and the sweetest disposition you
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z Z NOMADS 165 ever met with. He was respected as a patriarch by allthe rest, and retained his throne by moral influence ; forif might were right, as among the dogs of the Eskimo,the rule would already have passed to Ni-arr-way. Ni-arr-way was a fine black dog, the biggest of them.When Ni-arr-way gets to be Latoris age he will be justsuch another in character ; for even now he is the soulof kindness, and a remarkably useful dog—as you shallsee. Thirdly there came Huilka, the handsome treacherousone. Red he was, with a lovely fox-like coat. ThenPasco, who had the puppies later on. Mandaluk, a ladyalso, and very pretty but shy. Sixth, Sierko, about tenmonths old ; white, ragged, and always dirty, who barkedincessantly at nothing at all, and I think was touched inthe head. Hurpey, a piebald youngster, who promisedbetter things. Mno-coh, a dog like a timber wolf, whomI seem to know little about. There are dogs, youknow, with whom you may live for a long while, and yetnotice very little;

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