CHAP. XVII. 



ZYRIANI. 



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and there may be a greater number of red- and yellow-haired 

 men among them. There were several fishing encampments 

 of these peasants in different places down the river, and 

 we found that it was customary in the wealthier families 

 for one son to go in summer on the tundra, with the rein- 

 deer and the Samoyede servants. A Samoyede servant, 

 we were told, gets per annum 15 copecks; a sum which 

 probably represents his cost for the year. The language 

 of the Zyriani is totally different from Kuss, and belongs to 

 the agglutinative family of languages. The tribe belongs 

 to the Orthodox Greek Church, and not to that of the Old 

 Believers. 





OLD RUSSIAN SILVER CROSS. 



