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porridge. The Yakuts drink a great deal of tea, and
are very fond of strong spirits. The wealthy eat meat
every day and a kind of thick pancake, made of water
and barley-flour.

yakuts on the lena.

The culture of cereals has only of late years been
introduced among the Yakuts by the Russians, especially the
“Skoptsi” and other sectarians. Instead of flour they
formerly used the juicy part of the bark of the pine and
different kinds of roots. Half a century ago no one believed
it would be possible to cultivate cereals in Yakutsk. In
the first experiments the crops were frost-bitten, but
by-and-by the corn became acclimatised, and now in

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