listen to a distinguished pianist. I saw in the tent no
other musical instrument than that just mentioned.

[Illustration: CHUKCH SHAMAN DRUM. One eighth the natural size. ]

"The day we arrived at Najtskaj we employed in viewing the
neighbourhood of the village. We accordingly ascended a
hill about thirty metres high to the south of the village
in order to get a clear idea of the region. From the
summit of the hill we had a view of the two lagoons west
and east of Najtskaj. The western appeared, with the
exception of some earthy heights, to embrace the whole
stretch of coast between Najtskaj, the hill at Yinretlen,
and the mountains which are visible in the south from the
Observatory. The lagoon east of Najtskaj is separated from
the sea by a high rampart of sand, and extends about
thirty kilometres into the interior, to the foot of the
chain of hills which runs along there. To the eastward the
lagoon extends along the coast to the neighbourhood of
Serdze Kamen. This cape was clearly seen and, according to
an estimate which I do not think was far from the truth,
was situated at a distance of from twenty-five to twenty-six
kilometres from Najtskaj. It sinks terracewise towards the
sea, and its sides are covered with stone pillars, like
those we saw in the neighbourhood of Cape Great Baranoff.
Serdze Kamen to the south is connected with mountain heights
which are the higher the farther they are from the sea.
Some of these have a conical form, others are table-shaped,
reminding us of the Ambas of Abyssinia. Ten or twelve miles
into the interior they appear to reach a height of
six hundred to nine hundred metres.

"The fishing in the eastern lagoon takes place mainly in
the neighbourhood of Najtskaj, at a distance of about five
kilometres from the village. Hooks are exclusively used,
and no nets or other fishing implements. In a few minutes
I saw twenty cod (_urokadlin_) caught, and about as many
small fish, called by the natives _nukionukio_. For the
fishing the natives make a hole in the ice, a decimetre in
diameter. Round the hole they build, as a protection
against wind and drifting snow, a snow wall eighty
centimetres high, forming a circle with an inner diameter
of a metre and a half. The fish-hooks are of iron and are
not barbed. The line is about five