NOBTH-AMEEICAN IMPLEMENTS, ETC. 57 



Mountains. Some interesting remarks on the rapid decrease of the " Buffalo " are given by 

 Dr. P. V. Hayden at pages 150 and 151 of the ' Report on the Geology and Natural History 

 of the Upper Missouri/ 4to, Philadelphia, 1862. T. R. J. 



12 We might still better quote the passage from Tacitus ('Germania/ xlvi.), where he says 

 " Fennis mira feritas ; foeda paupertas ; non arma, non equi, non penates ; victui herba, vestitui 

 pellis ; cubile humus ; sola in sagittis spes, quas, inopia ferri, ossibus asperant." E. L. 



13 This horn is not that of the Elk or Moose, nor of the Wapiti, but decidedly of the Reindeer ; 

 nor is this a matter of surprise, since it came from the neighbourhood of the Mackenzie River, 

 where the Reindeer is said to abound. E. L. 



14 In a letter dated July 29, 1867, Mr. Anderson courteously informs us that, " in regard 

 to the remark made by me concerning the domestication of the Reindeer not being practised 

 by the North-American tribes, I wrote to His Highness Prince Maksoutoff, the Governor 

 of Sitka, requesting him to confirm, if in his -power, my assertion, as far as concerns 

 the tracts under his immediate jurisdiction. The reply he has favoured me with I now 

 enclose (the duplicate), and you will observe that he fully supports the view I had advanced 

 (this tract of country, you are aware, has since been transferred to the United States 

 Government) " : 



" Port of New Archangel, Sitka, 



" 17/29 March 1867. 

 "Alexander C. Anderson, Esq., Victoria, V. I. 



" SIR, In reply to your letter of 15 October 1866 with regard to domesticated herds of 

 Reindeers on the N.W. Coast of America, I am very glad to be able to inform you on quite 

 authentic grounds (1) that the natives in the vicinity of Wainwright Inlet, Norton Sound, or 

 elsewhere on the American shore of the Strait of Behring, do not domesticate the Reindeer 

 at all ; (2) and that any deer's meat supplied by the natives to vessels frequenting that vicinity 

 is positively the produce of the chase. 



" I am, 



" With my best regards, 



" Your obedient Servant, 



[Signed] " P. MAKSOUTOFF, 



" Governor of Russian Colonies in America." 



[N OTE . Reference should be made also to Professor Nilsson's opinion as to the Framea, 

 mentioned by Tacitus (see above, p. 47), having been a lance pointed with iron (see Sir John 

 Lubbock's translation of Sven Nilsson's 'The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia/ 8vo, 

 London, 1868, p. 195) ; also to his remarks on the Fins (Fenni) as stone- weaponed Cave- 

 dwellers, detested by the Germanic race, ibid. pp. 219 et seq. ; and on the Reindeer as described 

 by Cffisar, and its extinction in Scania, ibid. pp. 249, 256. EDIT.] 



