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reindeer on a ridge in front of us. Happily, however, the
wind was favorable so that the dogs did not get their
scent. The animals, of course, soon got ours, and, taking
alarm at the aspect of our caravan, they speedily disappeared.
Late in the evening we reached a primitive winter yurta
at Krestovsky Myss—the “promontory of the Cross”— where
we spent the night. At this extremely wild and desolate
spot—which may be said to form the western limit of the
Lena delta, the sandbanks formed by the westerly branch
of the river reaching as far as to this place, where the
sea suddenly becomes very deep—immense quantities of
driftwood were heaped upon the shores, and here the
natives have erected a yurta to serve as shelter on their
journeys between the Lena delta and the mouth of the
Olenek. We at once encamped, and the dogs, now very
tired, lay quietly scattered about the sledges between the
trunks of driftwood around the yurta. I got out my camera,
and managed in spite of the feeble light and cloudy
weather, to take a photograph of the dreary scene by long
exposure of the plate. A small cache or store-house, not
far from the yurta, where the natives had placed some
reindeer-meat and other things, had, we found, been torn
down by polar-bears, and the contents eaten up, leaving
some pieces of skin as the sole relic of their feast.
At five o’clock next morning we started on our way
over the tundra towards the Olenek. The shortest way to
the mouth of this river would have been in a westerly
direction, but the natives declaring that the northern part
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