Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long . he owner thenwent forward and saluted every reindeer; they were allowedto stroke his hands with their noses. He on his part tookevery reindeer by the horn and examined it in the most WASSILI MENKA. 419 careful way. After the inspection was ended, at a signgiven by the master the whole herd wheeled round and re-turned in closed ranks, with the old reindeer in front, totheir pasture. According to Nordenskiold there is not among the CoastC
Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long . he owner thenwent forward and saluted every reindeer; they were allowedto stroke his hands with their noses. He on his part tookevery reindeer by the horn and examined it in the most WASSILI MENKA. 419 careful way. After the inspection was ended, at a signgiven by the master the whole herd wheeled round and re-turned in closed ranks, with the old reindeer in front, totheir pasture. According to Nordenskiold there is not among the CoastChukches any recognized chiefs nor any trace of social organ-ization. Among the Reindeer Chukches living in the interiorthere appears to be a sort of chieftainship, and there are can show commissions from the Russian a person was Wassili Menka, the starost of the ReindeerChukches, a little dark man with a pretty worn appear-ance, clad in a white variegated pesk of white reindeerskin, under which a blue flannel shirt was visible. Hecarried to Yakutsk a letter from Nordenskiold, and theKing of Sweden rewarded him with a gold CHUKCHE TENT FKAME. The Chukches do not dwell in snow huts nor in woodenhouses, because lumber is not found on the coast, andwooden houses are unsuitable for the reindeer nomad. Theylive summer and winter in tents of a peculiar constructionnot used by any other race. In shape they are oval, withconical tops, and resemble inverted basins. To make the 420 THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. tent warm it is double, the outer envelope enclosing an innertent or sleeping chamber. The outer tent consists of walrus skins sewed togetherand stretched over wooden ribs, which are carefully boundtogether by thongs of skin. The ribs rest on posts driveninto the ground, or on tripods of drift-wood, which aresteadied by seal skin sacks filled with sand or stones sus-pended from the middle of them. Tlie frame and coveringare anchored to the ground
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