I arrived eventually at PURKIJAUR, a small island with a spruce wood on its northern side and birch woods to east and west with the result that no harm can come to the com. There was a settler living there and he said that the com was never damaged by the cold because, in addition to the woods, the water also counteracts the cold. The situation in which it lay was excellent. In among the bushes I found ‘Sceptrum Carol.’ [Moor-king] and ‘Pedicularis teuchrii folio, coma purpurea’ [Marsh Lousewortl. The river Karats, where there is a pearl fishery, runs not far from here. Both plants were also found at KARATSVALLEN, where there were boats, and from there on they became common.