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old ship and building of the new vessel there was enough refuse 

 for heating and cooking purposes. However, we carried ^^ 

 both the sea animals and the wood by means of a piece of wood 

 across the breast tied with ropes; a common load weighed sixty 

 and mostly up to eighty pounds, not counting axes, pots, and 

 shoemaker's and tailor's tools, which everyone always had to 

 have with him in order to mend the worn-out clothes and shoes 

 as soon as a tear occurred. For this purpose as well as for soles 

 the leathern provision sacks and knapsacks were cut up little by 

 little.388 



The third task consisted in the management of the household 

 matters, since cooking had to go on all the time, so that the 

 workmen, no matter when they came home, might have enough 

 to eat. In our [household] the arrangement was accordingly 

 made that daily one or a couple of Germans and Russians went 

 hunting, while the others w^ent for wood, and one German to- 

 gether with one Russian attended to the kitchen. This arrange- 

 ment was afterwards copied by all the others. Thus circum- 

 stanced, we celebrated all holidays and entertained after our own 

 fashion. ^^^ 



3" The MS adds: "on the back." 



3S8 The MS is somewhat longer, as follows: "We had only a three 

 months' supply of summer clothing and shoes, but as so much became 

 torn every day because of the hard work, the Sundaj- clothes — overcoats 

 and coats — had to be made into work blouses, the chamadoxes into boots, 

 the leathern provision sacks into soles. Since nobody would work for 

 money, everyone had to act as shoemaker, tailor, glover, butcher, car- 

 penter, cook, and footman as best he could, so that henceforth they would 

 have been able to earn an ample living in all these trades." 



The word chamadoxes of the MS (there spelled, in German translitera- 

 tion, Tschamadoxen) Pallas has rendered by "lederne . . . Tornister," 

 military knapsacks of leather. Dr. Golder thinks that the word is in- 

 tended for "the Russian word chemodan, which means box or portman- 

 teau. The older type, the kind used in Siberia, was usually covered with 

 skin." (S) 



389 Beginning with the equivalent of the second sentence of this para- 

 graph the MS is considerably more detailed, as follows: "In our yurt we 

 had made an arrangement which thereupon the others adopted and re- 

 tained as a permanent regulation. Our [household] consisted of five Ger- 



