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alive, you shall not kill them, but help them, because they
are baptised Christians although they do not make the sign
of the Cross.[1] If you find them ill, you shall give them
warm reindeer-milk, boiled meat, and broth, and wrap
them in warm fur clothes and bring them to the nearest
camp. If you find them dead, you shall hide their bodies
well from wild beasts, until they can be brought to the
nearest official. Have you heard?”
“We have heard,” replied the men standing around him.
On the tundra between the rivers Popigai and Bludnoie,
near the mouth of Katanga river, we met with natives
who were afraid of “travelling gentlemen.” They were
very poor and their reindeer too, and had suffered much
at the hands of the merchants, who pay them next to
nothing for their fox-skins.
In a camp on the tundra we came across a Polish
nobleman, J. A. Tschernjak, who had been banished to
Siberia during the revolt in the sixties, and had spent fifteen
years on the tundra 1000 miles east of the Yenisei, leading
the life of the natives and trading a little with them. He
had now, in his old age, married a young Dolgan woman
of 19, for whom, according to the custom of the country,
he had paid a certain sum of money (45 roubles, it was
said), and with her we found him living in a sledge,
covered with a kind of tarpaulin and reindeer-skin,
somewhat resembling an omnibus on runners.
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