. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. Sini:UIA
. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. Sini:UIAâFUR-TRADK AND GOLD-DIGGINGS. 21:} and find an inexhaustible supply of food in the forests and ]),.irc-gronnds of Silicria. The chase of the fur-bearing animals affords the Xorth-Siliorian nomadsâ suc'li as t!\e Ostiaks, Jakiits, Tuiigusi, and SanioTedesâthe only means of pro- curing tiie foreign articles they re(iuire; hence it taxes all their ingi'nuity, and takes up a great deal of their time. On the river-banks and in the forests they lay inmunerablo snares and tnqts, all so nicely adajtted to the size, strength, and peculiar habits of the various creatures they are intended to capture, that it would bo almost impossible to improve tliem. An industrious ,Iakut will lav about live hundred variou" *rai)s as soon as the iirst snow has fallen ; these lie visits aljout five or six times in the course of the winter, and generally finds .some animal or other in every eiglith or tenth .snare. Tlie i)roduce of his chase he brings to the nearest fair, where the t;?.v-gath- erer is waiting for the jassak, which is now generally j)aid in money (live pa- jicr roubles = four shillings). With the remainder of ids gains he purchases iron kettles, red cloth for henuning his garments, powde" and shot, rye-meal, glass pearls, tobacco, and brandyâwhich, though forbidden to be sold publicly, is riciiiy suj)itlied to him in private â and tiien retires to his native wilds. Fi
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