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the Frozen Sea, towards Borchaya and Nytjansk, 

 and for this purpose, they assemble in large troops 

 towards the autumn.* To follow the chase of 

 these animals with greater success, the Tungusians 

 have divided all the country of this peninsula into 

 departments separated by paling. They alarm 

 the rein deer by loud cries, and by dogs which 

 pursue them. The rein deer frightened by this 

 noise, run into the enclosures of the palings, 

 where they are easily taken ; all those which try 

 escape on the ice, are shot by the hunters. 



" The third day of our journey, we pitched 

 our tents at some hundred paces distant from the 

 Mammoth, on a hill called Kembisaga-Shaeta." 



Schumachof related to me nearly in these terms 

 the history of the discovery of the Mammoth. 



" The Tungusians, who are a wandering 

 people, remain but a little time in the same place. 

 Those who live in the forests, often take ten years 

 or more to travel over the vast regions between 

 the mountains : during this time, they do not once 

 return to their habitations. Each family lives 

 isolated, and knows no other society. If, during 

 the course of several years, two friends meet by 

 chance, they then communicate to each other 

 their adventures, their different successes in hunt- 

 ing, and the number of skins they have obtained. 

 After having passed some days together, and 



* Saner Beschreibung der Billingschen Reise, p. 130. 



