CHAPTER II I 



NOMADS 



July 3rd. — And now I will go on from day to day 

 recounting events as they came about, without further 

 digressions than may be expedient for the making clear 

 this point or that point which does not explain itself. 

 By these means I judge I shall best discover to you 

 the life of these solitary people, to whom we owe so 

 much, not only of our entertainment, but perhaps of 

 well-being itself. 



We were for a time their companions, a part of the 

 equipage of their daily concerns, living with them side by 

 side, feeding from their pot — from ' yud ' — moving with 

 them as they moved ; in a word, we were to be Samoyeds. 



At two in the afternoon of this day, Tuesday, the 3rd 

 of July, we rose, and by half-past three the mid-day 

 meal was ready cooked and eaten. 



The Samoyed has three proper meals in the day, as 

 we have ourselves. The word for a meal is 'zeindow.' 

 Of these they have — 



1. Sienitz-zeindow = the mornino- meal. 



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Hov-zeindow = do. 



Ortow = breakfast. 



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