In Plover Bay. Reindeer Farming on the Arctic Shores of Siberia. Graphic Description of Reindeer Farmers and their Flocks. Glacier Groovings-Desolate Appearance of the Land. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Steamer Corwin, Plover Bay, Siberia, August 26, 1881.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1881
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; pamphlets; journal articles; speeches; writing; annotation; Arctic; Fanning; Plover Bay; Siberia
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/182; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmb/article/1181/viewcontent/131.pdf

FLOYER BA. Written, Aug. 25, 1881 Pub. Oct. 26 " ___ Reindeer Fanning om the Arctic Shores of giteria,, ic escipptija of Reindeer Glacier Groovlngs—Oesolata of SJt3 band. Appearance "Corwin" ffVl '" '"'. I ,; .- , , O {special correspondence of the fullettin.] Steamer Corwin, } Plover Bat, Siberia, August 26,1881. ( This morning a party from the ship went to the head of the bayunder the guidance of a pair of Ts chuckchis to see a flock of reindeer that 'they told us was there. The distance, we found, is about eighteen miles from the lower harbor, where the Corwin is at anchor. The day was fine and we enjoyed the sail very much, skimming rapidly along in the steam launch over smooth water, past the huge ice-sculptured headlands and mountains, forming-the walls, and the deep canons and valleys between them sweeping back to clusters of glacial fountains,, the naturalist making desperate efforts now and then to obtain specimens of rare auks, petrels, clucks, etc., which were flying and swimming about us in erreat abundance, making lively pie lures of happy, exuberant life. DESOLATE APPEARANCE OF THE LAND. The rocks bounding the bay, though beauti- lul in their combinations and collocations of curves and peaks, inflowing and touching delicately, and rising in bold, picturesque groups, are, nevertheless, intensely desolate-looking for want of trees, shrubs or vegetation dense enough to give color in telling quantities visible at a distance. Even the valleys opening back from the water here and there, are mostly bare as seen at the distance of a mile or two, and have only faint tinges of green derived from dwarf willows-and sedges .and heathwarts creepieg low among stoDes. Yet here, or in the larger valleys adjacent, where the main tributary glaciers came into the Plover Bay trunk, and others to the northeastward, lar ge flocks of reindeer, find sustenance, wild as well as tame,- together' with a few wild sheep and Bears. REINDEER FARMERS. , - On the terminal moraine of the ancient glacier that formed the first main ...