. Round about the North pole . o THE NATIONS OF THE COAST 115 places these strata of ice that never melts have beenfound to be three hundred feet thick—ice that hasremained in block since the mammoths got into coldstorage in it ages ago, for otherwise they would nothave lasted intact in skin and flesh as many have done,like the very first discovered in a complete state, thatchipped out by Adams in 1807. In such a climate, whose winter terrors are only tooprominent, all along the north of Siberia live theancient peoples driven towards the sea by thosemighty movements from the land of the Turk a
. Round about the North pole . o THE NATIONS OF THE COAST 115 places these strata of ice that never melts have beenfound to be three hundred feet thick—ice that hasremained in block since the mammoths got into coldstorage in it ages ago, for otherwise they would nothave lasted intact in skin and flesh as many have done,like the very first discovered in a complete state, thatchipped out by Adams in 1807. In such a climate, whose winter terrors are only tooprominent, all along the north of Siberia live theancient peoples driven towards the sea by thosemighty movements from the land of the Turk andMongol which, north and south, east and west,flooded Europe and Asia with invaders—Ostiaks andSamoyeds west of Chelyuskin; Yakuts, Chukches,and others to the east of it, the descriptions of whoseunpleasant manners and customs appear to be writtenwith a view to showing how curiously local are thelaws of health. One may well ask, as Wrangell did,why they should remain in so dreary a region andtake life so contentedly. And
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