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reported from place to place that we paid well for their
services. After travelling some 50 days over the tundras,
I knew by heart the stereotyped Yakut phrases used in
this bargaining. For the use of those who may feel
tempted to make a holiday trip in winter-time to northern
Siberia, I give at the end of this volume a few of the
most typical phrases—a "Manual of Conversation" with
which it is possible to get along all the way from the
lower Yenisei to the land of the Tschuktchis, a little trip
of some 3500 miles.
From Katangskoie we took a south-westerly direction,
which we followed for a distance of 75 miles. The
temperature kept between 22° and 40° below zero, and a
northwesterly wind was almost constantly blowing. At one
camp we found an interesting Tungus family, consisting of
an 80-years-old widow with five sons. Both the widow and
her sons were unsophisticated heathens, who did not, as many
Yakut Shamanists do when travellers come, make the sign
of the Cross. She wondered why we did not cross
ourselves, and believing that we too were some kind of heathens,
she commenced to tell us about her experiences in life.
She related that she had lost her husband long ago, and
had all the time of her widowhood been keeping her sons
and herds of reindeer as far as possible from all contact
with “the baptised people” (the merchants and the priests).
In this she had succeeded so well, that her healthy-looking
sons, of whom three were married, knew the taste neither
of tobacco nor vodka.
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