The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . nt in their jioverty, and have no cares for the morrow. Being ex-tremely indolent, they never work unless when compelled. They readily adoptstrange maimers, and no doubt education might produce valuable results in sopliable and sharp-witted a race. Unfortunately the Russians and Cossackswho have settled among them do not afford them the best examples. They KAMCHATKA. 261 have long since been converted to the Greek Church, but it is supposed that bap-tism has not fully effaced all
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . nt in their jioverty, and have no cares for the morrow. Being ex-tremely indolent, they never work unless when compelled. They readily adoptstrange maimers, and no doubt education might produce valuable results in sopliable and sharp-witted a race. Unfortunately the Russians and Cossackswho have settled among them do not afford them the best examples. They KAMCHATKA. 261 have long since been converted to the Greek Church, but it is supposed that bap-tism has not fully effaced all traces of Shamanism. Formerly they had manygods, the chief of whom Avas Kutka, the creator of heaven and earth. But farfrom honoring Kutka, they continually ridiculed him, and made him the con-stant butt of their satire. Kutka, however, had a wife, Chachy, who was en-dowed with all the intelligence in which her spouse was supposed to be defi-cient, and who, as is the case in many mortal housekeepings, was constantly ex-erting her ingenuity in repairing the blunders of her lord and master. 262 THE POLAR ^^m#^ FRAME-WORK OF TCHUKTCHI HOUSE. CHAPTER XXiy. THE TCHUKTCHI. The Land of the Tchuktclii.—Their independent Spirit and commorcial Enterprise.—Perpetual Miirra-tioiis.—The Fair of Ostrovvnoje.—Visit in a Tchuktch Polog.—Races.—Tchuktch Bayaderes.—TheTennygk, or Reindeer Tchuktclii.—TheOnkilon, or Sedentary Tcbuktclii.—Their Mode of Life. AT the extreme north-eastern point of Asia, bounded by the Polar Oceanon one side and the Sea of Bering on the other, lies the land of theTchuktclii. The few travclleis who have ever visited that bleak promontorydescribe it as one of the dreariest regions of the earth. The climate is dread-fully cold, as may be expected in a country confined between icy seas. BeforeJuly 20th there is no appearance of summer, and winter already sets in aboutAugust 20th. The lower grounds shelving to the north are intersected withnumero
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