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its mouth. In the neighbourhood of the Taimyr river, north
of the lake of that name, where there is plenty of splendid
fishing, tribes of Tunguses and Samoyedes fish and trap
foxes; while east of the lake, towards Balakna and Katanga
Bay, the country is mainly occupied by Dolgans, who hunt
the wild reindeer and gather mammoth-tusks. On the
Piasina and in the region east of it towards the Taimyr
Lake, Dolgans and Samoyedes wander, reaching northwards
to the Arctic sea. Although the Samoyedes spend the
summer north of Lake Taimyr, they nowadays never go
as far north as the Arctic Ocean.

samoyedes near the piasina.

During our journey from the lake of Piasina to the
Yenisei, a distance of about 125 miles, we crossed the
Norilsky mountains and met with unpleasantly stormy

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