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.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

131

Original Date

10-26-1881

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

A party from the ship's crew traveled a good distance to purchase a reindeer for meat. After much negotiation, the natives drove their flock from the hills to the shore, selected an animal to butcher, and performed a strange ceremony. Muir writes: ""I have never before seen half so interesting a company of tame animals .... In these frozen regions they supply every want of their owners as no other animal could possibly do-food, warm clothing, coverings for their tents, bedding, rapid transportation, and, to some extent fuel.""

Publication

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 26, 1881

Page/Column

p. 1, cols. 1-2

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 341, v. 7, pp. 223-[235]; no. 347, pp. 205-[216].

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "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." (1881). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 182.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/182