is 
SAMOIEDEA. 
LAPLANDERS, 
THEIR USESOF IT. 
SAMOIEDS. 
R E I N. 
ifle of Kadjak, and others of the eafternmott Fox z/flands, the inha- 
bitants have fkins of them from the American continent, and border 
their bonnets with the white hairs of the domeftic Rein-deers, 
{tained red. They are found again in the countries which border on 
the Icy fea * ; from which they retire, at approach of winter, towards 
the woods, to feed on the mofs, not only that which grows on the 
ground, but the fpecies pendulous from the trees. The whole north- 
eaft of Sidiria abounds with them. They alfo are yet found wild in 
the Urallian mountains; along the river Kama, as far as Kungus ; and 
about fome fnowy fummits more fouth: and again on the high chain 
bordering on Sidiria on the fouth, and about lake Baikal. ‘Towards 
the weft they are continued in the land of the Samoieds; and finally 
among the well-known Laplanders, I here tranfgrefs the limits of 
my plan, to give a flight comparative view of the progrefs of civili- 
zation among the inhabitants of thefe frozen climes. 
With the Laplanders this animal is the fubftitute to the Horfe, 
the Cow, the Sheep, and the Goat. Thofe moft innocent of people 
have, even under their rigorous fky, fome of the charms of a paftoral 
life. They have fubdued thefe animals to various ufes, and re- 
clamed them from their wild ftate. They attend their herds of 
Rein-deer, during fummer, to the fummits of their alps; to the 
fides of their clear lakes and {treams, often bordered with native rofes. 
They know the arts of the dairy, milk thefe their cattle, and make 
from it arich cheefe. They train them to the fledge, confider them 
as their chief treafure, and cherifh them with the utmoft tendernefs. 
The brutifh Samoied confiders them in no other view than as ani- 
mals of draught, to convey them to the chafe of the wild Reins ; which 
they kill for the fake of the fkins, either to cloath themfelves, or to 
cover their tents. They know not the cleanly delicacy of the milk 
or cheefe; but prefer for their repaft the inteftines of beafts, or the 
half-putrid flefh of a horfe, ox, or fheep, which they find dead on 
the high road +. 
* Barents voy. + Le Bruyn, i. 7, 8. : 
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