CHAPTER. iit 
NOMADS 
July 3vd.—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 morning meal. 
Hov-zeindow = do. 
Ortow = breakfast. 
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