II.] 
SAMOYED WEAPONS. 
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find in the accounts of the voyages of the English and Dutch 
travellers to the North-East. 
That changes have taken place in their weapons, in other 
words, that the Samoyeds have made progress in the art of 
war or the chase, is shown by the old drawings, some of which 
are here reproduced. For in these they are nearly always 
delineated with bows and arrows. Now the bow appears to 
SAMOYED-ARCHERS. 
After Linschofen. 
have almost completely gone out of use, for we saw not 
a single Samoyed archer. They had, on the other hand, the 
wretched old flint firelocks, in which lost pieces of the lock 
were often replaced in a very iugenious way with pieces of bone 
and thongs. They also inquired eagerly for percussion guns, 
but breechloaders were still unknown to them. In this 
