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CHAPTER XVII.
ACROSS THE TUNDRA TO THE ANABAR.
Natives of the Olenek—Prontchischtschev’s Grave—A Tungus Chief and
his Reindeer—The Reindeer-Nomads—Reindeer and Sledges—We
start for Anabar—The Routine of Tundra Sledging—“Rock-Ice”—
Tameness of Birds—Wild Reindeer—Poverty and Epidemics.
The sparse population on the lower Olenek have their
yurtas on each side of the river, and on the hills further
away from the shore, where they take refuge when
inundations occur. These natives, who are most hospitable and
honest folk, are a mixed race of Yakuts and Tunguses,
and a few of them have a little Russian blood in their
veins from the peasants sent to these distant regions during
the reign of Catherine II. The region about the lower Olenek
is also visited by the natives of the western parts of the
Lena delta, who spend the winter fishing at the mouth of
the Olenek; and Tunguses come here in summer-time with
their herds of reindeer, travelling distances of from three
hundred to a thousand miles from the forest-regions in
the south. At Olenek there are a number of ambar or
small store-houses erected long ago by the above-mentioned
Russian peasants. These people soon succumbed to the
hard climate, and the few survivors became assimilated with
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