APPENDIX D 



The Samoyedes. 



Concerning the Samoyedes, we received information 

 from Captain Eobert Engel and from Herr Leopold W. 

 Arendt, Mr. Sidoroff's present manager (in place of Mr. 

 Matheson, the former manager, who has lately left). As 

 before mentioned, the Captain has seen a good deal of 

 the Samoyedes and lived in their tents, and has also 

 travelled with reindeer on the tundras, and has met 

 many Samoyedes at Habarika, where the steamer 

 winters, at Alexievsky, 25 versts north from Kuja, where 

 the vessels load, and on the coast and tundra between 

 Kuja and Varandai. 



Herr L. W. Arendt, who was here for some years under 

 the former manager, has also had opportunity of seeing 

 the Samoyedes often, but, perhaps, has not mingled 

 with them so frequently as the Captain has. 



We were told that nearer to the mouth of the Petchora 

 the Samoyedes have not mingled so much with the 

 Eussians in the larger towns and villages as those at 

 Habarika have, and that accordingly, they value money 

 less and barter more, whereas those in more constant 

 proximity to the larger towns prefer money wherewith to 

 purchase vodky. 



Both Captain Engel and Herr Arendt assure us that 

 the Samoyedes are a good-natured, amiable people, and 



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