11)2 
THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
[OIIAP. 
S-IMOYEUS. 
From Schleissing’s Neu-entdecktes Sieweria, worinncu die Zobelii gcfangen werdcn. 
Zittau 169.?.^ 
1 A still more extraordinary idea of the Samoyeds, than that which this 
woodcut gives us, we get from the way in which they are mentioned in 
the account of the journey which the Italian Minorite, Joannes de Piano 
Carpini, undertook in High Asia in the years 1245-47 as ambassador from 
tlie Pope to the mighty conqueror of the Mongolian hordes. In this book 
of travels it is said that Occodai Khan, Chingis Khan’s son, after having 
been defeated by the Plungarians and Poles, turned towards the north, 
conquered the Bascarti, i e. the Great Hungarians, then came into collision 
with the Parositi—who had wonderfully small stomachs and mouths, and 
did not eat flesh, but only boiled it and nourished themselves by inhaling 
the steam—and finally came to the Samogedi^ who lived only by the chase 
and had houses and clothes of skin, and to a land by the ocean, where 
there were monsters with the bodies of men, the feet of oxen and the faces 
of dogs {Relation des Mongols ou Tartares, par le frM’e Jean du Plan de 
Carpin, publ. par M. d’Avezac, Paris 1838, p. 281. Compare Kamusio, 
