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intellectually, and morally than, for instance, the
“fishing-nomads” and other natives who have more or less come
in contact with so-called civilisation, and are nominally
members of the orthodox Church.
It was arranged that the chief’s family should move south
with the reindeer-herd a distance of some 400 miles, to
the border of the forest-region, where the chief would join
them after having transported our expedition to Anabar.
Accordingly in the forenoon of the 14th of October the
caravan was ready for the start. To each of the eleven sledges
were put two reindeer, and to my sledge and that of the
chief three reindeer abreast. The sledges, which were long
and broad, were held together by means of leather strings
and sinews instead of nails; and strong traces of leather were
used instead of shafts. Each driver used a long wooden pole,
somewhat like a fishing-rod, partly to urge on the animals,
and also partly to steer them. Besides the 24 reindeer
put to our sledges, there were 15 running loose as spare
animals in case of accidents. All of them were fine, strong
animals, and we started with great speed over an uphill
country from the valley of the Olenek. Our caravan took
a south-westerly direction over an undulating tundra with
a great many rifts and ravines in the frozen earth,
resembling the crevasses of a glacier. Suddenly a dense fog,
laden with ice-particles coming with the northerly wind
from the Arctic sea, settled over the desolate region we
were crossing, making it impossible for us to see further
ahead than the horns of the reindeer pulling our sledges,
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