The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ve. Itwas evident that they were hindered from complying with myrequests partly by superstition, partly by being a little ashamed,before the West European, of the nature of their gods. Themetallic lustre of some rouble pieces which I had procured inStockholm, however, at last induced an old woman to set aside F 2 68 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [CUAP. all fears. She went to one of the loaded sledges, which appearedto be used as magazines, and searched for a long time
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . ve. Itwas evident that they were hindered from complying with myrequests partly by superstition, partly by being a little ashamed,before the West European, of the nature of their gods. Themetallic lustre of some rouble pieces which I had procured inStockholm, however, at last induced an old woman to set aside F 2 68 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [CUAP. all fears. She went to one of the loaded sledges, which appearedto be used as magazines, and searched for a long time till shegot hold of an old useless skin boot, from which she drew a fineskin stocking, out of which at last four idols appeared. Afterfurther negotiations they were sold to me at a very high consisted of a miniature pesk, with belt, without body; askin doll thirteen centimetres long, with face of brass ; anotherdoll, with a bent piece of copper plate for a nose; and a stone,wrapped round with rags and hung with brass plates, a cornerof the stone forming the countenance of the human figure itwas intended to Sa>mohdartim^trahisaramifertsfrotyaBis infidenHum-^Nee non Idolgrnm ah ijjasm cultorum ejfgks. SWIOYED SLEIGH AND IDOLS. After an old Dutch engravinK. More finely-formed gods, dolls pretty well made, with bowsforged of iron, I have seen, but have not had the good fortuneto get possession of. In the case now in question the trafficwas facilitated by the circumstance that the old witch, AnnaPetrovna, who sold her gods, was baptised, which was naturallytaken advantage of by me to represent to her that it was wrongfor her as a Christian to worship such trash as bolvans, andthe necessity of immediately getting rid of them. But my argu-ments, at once sophistic and egoistic, met with disapproval, bothfrom the Russians and Samoyeds standing round, inasmuch as II.] TEA IN A RUSSIAN CABIN. 69- they declared that on the whole there was no great differencebetween
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