New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-22

a difficulty. Mr. Trevor Battye insists that he
was not to blame for this mistake on their part.
The short Of It was that they duly carried the
mysterious strangers belongings over to the east
side OF the island. But they never mastered his
name. Perhaps. he spared them. At all events.
In the effort to tell them where England was he
used the word Anglia. and that stuck to him as a
personal appellatIon. They came to like him.
and II they could. would have persuaded him to
stay among them all his life. But he departed,
and though his going was not unseen. he carried
as much mystery with him ne had brought
For he was possessed OF numerous "bovans or
idols. 1t was an uncanny thought to the Samo-
yeds that foreigner should carry away an I'M
age OF their god. II was something worse TO the
Russian traders upon whom he had 10 depend
for getting to Archangel. They were mission
aries, In sense for they carrier their Icon wor-
ship wherever they went. and when the tapers
refused to burn in front OF the Image OK good
Saint Nicholas Mr.. Trevor-Battyes bolvans were
held to a strict account II he had not taken
them out of the tin box In which he carried trim
kets and put them In his pocket 80 as to give the
saint the renown on shipboard Of having caused
them miraculousy to disappear, there Is no tell
ing but what he might have disappeared himself,
like Jonah In the midst Of a storm. He seconded
the act OF pocketing the images by showing an
apt and useful knowledge Of the barometer and
go landed safely with his Idols Remembering
the fable Of the man and the lion. one may guess
that the trader Alexander Samarokof would have
different story to tell Of what happened on his
memorable voyage. But that Is neither here nor
there. The fact Is that Mr.. Trevor-Battye's trav-
els and his book. taking everything into consider
alton, unique. In place where he might
have been expected to starve to death he MAIN
tained himself like good general. learned much
OF the native language. studied the native flora
and fauna with such care that his lists OF plants
and animals are surprising even to an Innocent
who supposes that such things easily done.
II his yacht mate had done half as well on Nova
Zembla we might know by this time where the
curlew- sandpiper breeds. But that Is another
story, and n story not without bitterness one
suspects. Let the other man write book. Mean
while something curious should be observed
about reindeer driving Mr. Trevor Battye
learned how to drive. though he says that he
never learned how the Samoyeds stopped a team.
But what he says about single-ne driving
seems to At Into familiar experience. When a
Samoyed driver wished to turn his team to the
left he pulled steadily on his one rein: but when
he wished to turn 10 the right. he jerked the line
against the deer the near side. the leader In
the team. Now that interpreted is simply the
"haw" aLl gee of the American ploughman,
and 1t Is possible II single-ne driving has not
wholly disappeared in England. that Mr.. Trevor
Battye would find traces Of the system on which
his RENDERS were managed within half days
ride of London His book is copiously illustrated,
and some OF the most interesting plates-from the
ethnologists point OF view-are copies Of sketches
made by Samoyed Out and out the book Is a
novelty.