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Samoyeds. For we have two stranger families with us. 
Of whom more to-morrow. 
A wandering dog kept pushing in his nose under the 
sail against my head, on the look-out, no doubt, for goose. 
For a long time I took no notice. You learn to be very 
careful with these dogs. One does not matter much, but 
you may very easily bring the whole pack about your 
ears. At last I thought it had gone far enough, and the 
next time the canvas begin to move I knelt up very 
quietly, doubled my fist, and caught the prowler a crack 
MY ADLIURS, MY TOOR, AND MY RESIDENCE 
on his nose so unexpectedly and with such effect that he 
fled half howling and half growling. A Samoyed does 
not hit his dog, he only adjures him; so no wonder this 
dog was scared. 
With that the whole pack—and I reckon we had thirty 
dogs—broke into a scream like maniacs, and the women 
rushed out to see what was up; so that, what with the 
noise of the dogs and the women, and the men who yelled 
from the ‘ yierserk’ [tents] at the women and the dogs, for 
a short time we had quite a Wagnerian symphony. But 
gradually all grew still. Once only after that I heard a 
