Identifier: travelsofnatural011905harv (find matches)
Title: Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe, Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Harvie-Brown, J. A. (John Alexander), 1844-1916
Subjects: Birds -- Europe, Northern Europe, Northern -- Description and travel Valdres (Norway) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, T. F. Unwin

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good, coming instreams from the lakes. People do not cut the hay onthe islands. Sid6rofi:s steamer is 120 feet long and of85 horse-power. It is better to go via Mezen. There is swampyground near Zylma, on the Mezen route, 240 versts,where new huts are built. Food for the journey fromMezen to Ust Zylma should be taken from Archangel.It is two or three days journey from Archangel toMezen. Flax-tow and cotton-wad can be had at Ijma. Sidoroffhas stayed at Bouligans house at Ust Zylma.* A goodhouse in Kuja is Gregory Koriapanoffs. From UstZylma back to the porterage between the rivers Zylmaand Peza takes about three days. Such was a summary of the information we receivedfrom Katzoff, which we found very good. We hope to see Mr. Schmidt, his present employer,to-morrow at Solombola, and, if possible, arrange to securehis services for four months. We saw also a priest who has lived among the Samo-yedes in the Ural, east of Petchora, and he will call■- The house we ourselves occupied later.
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ox THE ROAD TO 3IEZEN (sUMMEE). KULOI RIVER. (See page 248. P ETCH OR A 231 to-morrow evening, when we hope to get f5till moreinformation from him. Kae has had some .£60 worth of old silver pm-chased forhim in Archangel by Mrs. Birse. Some of it is verycurious and rich. Mrs. Craemers came in the evening, and we had a longchat about Carl and his prospects. The eldest son, whomI have not yet seen, is engaged to Miss Giernet, a sisterof the lady who accompanied Alston and myself on ourtrip to Suzma in 1872. To-night the temperature was —20° R. equal to —16°below zero of Fahrenheit. March 20. On Saturday, the 20th of March, we called uponMr. Schmidt, and it became quite certain that we cannotobtain Katzoffs services. We saw the chief priest of the Archangel Cathedral,Father Inokentia, who at one time resided for seventeenyears among the Samoyedes, at Kolva, on the Ussa, upto 1847, and who made sundry trips to the Ural whilstengaged in converting (?) the Samoyedes. Castren, theSwede

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