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(1901) [MARC] Author: Jonas Jonsson Stadling Translator: Francis Henry Hill Guillemard - Tema: Russia
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is flat, and abounds in marshes and lakes, making travelling
easy in good weather. In snowstorms, of which we had
some fair specimens, the crossing of it is a somewhat
risky affair.

At one place near a lake we found, to our great surprise,
a thin forest of small and stunted larch-trees, forming an
island in this boundless frozen “sea”, as the natives in their
picturesque language call the tundra. In this same
lake-region we came upon a number of very poor native families
of various races, occupying themselves with fishing and
trapping foxes. A little later we arrived at the camp of
a hospitable Tungus chief, who treated us to some splendid
frozen fish, which he had caught in the Taimyr river. He
had met with several Samoyedes, “a people very
communicative and fond of talking”, but he had not heard of
the discovery of any trace of Andrée’s balloon or its
occupants.

The report that we were “ambassadors of the Great
White Sun” seems to have preceded us everywhere in our
travels in this part of the world, and at one of our camps,
as on a previous occasion to which I have alluded, we
were waited upon by a formal deputation, headed by a
Dolgan chief, complaining bitterly of the way they were
being fleeced and bullied by the merchants, especially by
a certain Sotnikoff, who had on one occasion beaten the
eyes out of a native, because he had sold a fox-skin to
another merchant, while other wretched people had been
treated in a similarly barbarous way. On two other

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