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CHAPTER XX.
ACROSS THE TAIMYR PENINSULA.
We leave the Katanga—Our Winter Dress—Fatigues of Sledge Travelling—
A Tungus Family—Across an Unknown Land—The Nosovaya
Tundra—An Unexpected Forest—A Dolgan Deputation—Geographical
Distribution of the Nomad Races—We Reach the Yenisei.
Knowing that there were winter yurtas on the forest-line
all the way between Katangskoie and the Yenisei, we had
looked forward to this part of our journey as an easy
affair. In this, however, we were sadly disappointed. The
natives had not as yet come back from the tundra to these
yurtas, whither they return “when the sun disappears,”
i.e. in the middle of November.
The natives told us that it would be very difficult to
find the camps on the immense Taimyr, because the people
were constantly moving about with their herds of reindeer,
and they therefore advised us to stay at Katangskoie
until they had got back to the forest-line, saying it would
be a very risky affair to try without their aid to cross the
tundra, where people had often perished in the snowstorms.
Being anxious, however, to get over this part of our
journey before these dreaded November blizzards came upon
us, we decided to make the attempt, and accordingly started
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