SLEDGE-DOGS 



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the purely local race being, I believe, extinct. Their 

 costume resembled that of Russian peasants — a blue 

 cotton shirt under an old brown jacket, broad trousers 

 tucked into top boots, and a military-shaped cap. 

 Their boots were made of reindeer hide, soles stitched 



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on to seal's throat-skins round the calves. At their 

 head was the Shii's/iiJid, or chief official of Stary 

 Ostrog, a settlement fcjur^ miles distant. He wore 

 several medals on his breast, and proudly declared to 

 us that he had represented his district at the Tsar's 

 coronation in Moscow. The ponies, about twenty in 



