SAMOYEl) AND LAPP SLEIGHS. 
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those regions, for instance, in Huyghen van Linschoten’s 
Scliif-vaert van by Noorden, &c., Amsterdam, 1601, as a side 
drawing on the principal map. Such high sleighs are also used 
on the Kanin peninsula, on Yalmal, and in Western Siberia. 
The sleighs of the Chukchis, on the other hand, as will be 
seen by a drawing given farther on, are lower, and thus more 
resemble our ‘"kaelkar,” or work-sledges. 
After original in the Northei'n Museum, Stockholm. 
The neighbourhood of the tents swarmed with small black 
or white long-haired dogs, with pointed nose and pointed ears. 
They are used exclusively for tending the herds of reindeer, and 
appear to be of the same race as the renvallhund,” the reindeer 
dog. At several places on the coast of the White Sea, how¬ 
ever, dogs are also employed as beasts of draught, but according 
to information which I procured before my departure for 
