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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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off. Only Shabla, the dirty driver,watched the axe with an eye so cunning, I mistrustedhim much, and you may be sure watched him too. Wehad two big lumps of salt pork from the ship, and onthis we fed them, boiling it in our only pot. For wehad made a splendid fire from the drift-wood lyinground. They did not eat much of this pork ; had it been gooseor reindeer they would have eaten four times as much.They could not make out what it was, and I did notremember the Russian word for it, though okorok Iknew was ham; so I told them it was okorok. Butthis did not help, so pencil and pantomine as usual weremy resort. I drew them a pig, but they took it forsome form of seal, and said its legs were wrongly done.This put me to squeaking and grunting on all-fours, at 152 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV which they laughed much, and for the greater part werenone the wiser. Only the Prophet said, Drem, drem( yes, yes ) ; he had seen it in Archangel. Onaska, then,was not a Kolguev man, and thus I learned why he
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SHABLA SMOKING HYLAND S PIPE In his right hand is his cows horn snuff-box. In the distance a man goes off with the di-zha to take a deer was master of reading and writing, as the others were not. After this we all—Uano, Onaska, Shabla, On Tipaand On Tipas son, Hyland and myself,—seven men in RE-CROSSING 153 all, crowded in my little tent (seven feet by seven),where we made the evening go very merrily; for I gavethem a little whisky apiece, and lent them a tobaccopipe, which went the round, though Onaska would notsmoke at all, so Uano had a double share. Then I brought out a large coloured sheet of Scandi-navian birds, and also my bird-book, at which they dis-played the greatest interest. They told me which wereKolguev birds, and which were not, and gave me all thenative names, which will come in later in this book. They were most intelligent about it, and had grandarguments over certain cases. I was quite surprisedat their accuracy and skill, and almost everything Idoubted at the

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