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The rein-deer perform a periodical transmigration every 

 year, during which they abandon these places, in order 

 to proceed by the Frozen-Sea towards Borschaya and 

 Uitjansk, and for this purpose they collect in large 

 troops about autumn. In order to hunt these animals 

 with greater prospect of success, the Toungouses have 

 divided the peninsula into cantons, separated by pal- 

 ings. They frighten the deer by loud cries, which 

 they utter all at once, by letting dogs loose at them, 

 and by fans which they attach to the palings, and 

 which are agitated by the wind. The terrified rein- 

 deer throw themselves into the water, in order to reach 

 some neighbouring island, where they are pursued and 

 killed by the hunters. 



On the third day of our journey, Ave pitched our 

 tents a few hundred paces from the mammoth, upon a 

 hillock called Kembisagashaeta, which signifies the 

 stone with the broad side. 



SchoumachofF related to me the history of the disco- 

 very of the mammoth, in nearly the following terms : 



" The Toungouses, who are a wandering people, 

 seldom remain long in one place. Those who live in 

 the forests, often spend ten years and more in travers- 

 ing the vast regions among the mountains: during this 

 period they never visit their homes. Each family lives 

 in an isolated state from the rest; the chief takes care 

 of them, and knows no other society. If, after several 

 years' absence, two friends meet by chance, they then 

 mutually communicate their adventures, the various 



