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occasions formal complaints of a like nature were made to us
by deputations, and there is no doubt, especially from what I
afterwards learnt from thoroughly reliable sources, that these
poor natives are infamously treated by some of the merchants,
and are often reduced to a state of misery and famine,
which at times has led to cannibalism, as indeed has been
officially proved—for example, among the Samoyedes and
the Ostiaks on the lower Yenisei, and the Dolgans and
other natives in the Taimyr region.
I could only promise these unfortunate people to try to
lay their case before some of the Russian authorities and
the general public. I also spoke to their Governor on the
subject as well as to a prominent person in St.
Petersburg, a personal friend of the Tsar, and other persons in
authority. [1] There is no doubt that these natives, now
fast dying out, will soon belong only to history, if radical
and speedy reforms are not undertaken to prevent it.
During our passage over the immense Taimyr peninsula
between the Katanga and the river Piasina, we gathered the
following information as to the annual wanderings of the
natives, who, with their herds of reindeer, keep within the
limits of certain districts. Dolgans and Yakuts nomadise
on the river Gorbita, which falls into the Taimyr, and on
the last-named river as far as the mouth of its tributary,
the Kerika; Samoyedes monopolise the Logatta, another
tributary of the Taimyr; and Dolgans the country north of
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