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CHAPTER IX.
THE YAKUTS.
Population—Social Organisation—Yakut Horses and Cattle—Culture of
Cereals—The Yurta—Dress and Ceremonies—Shamanism—Russian
Shamanists.
The entire population of Yakutsk amounted in January
1897, according to official reports, to 277,835, of whom
6 per cent were Russians, the remainder belonging to different
native races. Of these natives no less than 93 per cent, or
244,183, are Yakuts; 10,269 are Tunguses, and the rest
belong to various smaller tribes, such as the Dolgans,
Lamuts, Yukagirs, etc.
The Yakuts live in groups, scattered here and there in
the forests or on the tundras, each family living in a
yurta, or, if on the tundra, in tents. If they were evenly
distributed over the whole country, each family or yurta
would dispose of an area of nearly twenty-eight square
miles. But the Yakuts, as we have mentioned above,
prefer settling in groups, where there is plenty of pasture,
or in the neighbourhood of lakes and rivers abounding
with fish, or in forests where game is to be had. Such
groups or communities are called aga-usa (“paternal-families”
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