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FROM NORTH POLE TO EQUATOR. 



thus rendered pliant. On the least exposed side is an opening 

 which serves as a door, and which can be closed at will with 

 another sheet of bark; the pointed top of the tent is always 



Fig. 62. — "Heathen" Ostiaks, Reindeer, and Tshums. 



left uncovered to admit of the free passage of smoke. From the 

 door straight to the opposite side of the hut runs a passage, in the 

 middle of which the fire is built; over this two horizontal poles, 



