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(1901) [MARC] Author: Jonas Jonsson Stadling Translator: Francis Henry Hill Guillemard - Tema: Russia
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tungus yurta on the lena.


It may be said with truth that it still remains for
scientists to determine the anthropological and
ethnographical relations of the several native races and tribes
in Siberia. Without entering into the different theories with
regard to the ethnological position of the Tunguses, it may
be as well to state here that the latest investigations made
by savants—for the most part political exiles—who have for
many years studied this interesting people, do not
confirm the theory that the Tunguses are “essentially a
Mongolic people.” There is a wide gulf, not only between
the language of the Tunguses and that of the Mongols,

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