The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . e. Then the magazines of the traders gradually fill with furs—with clothes of reindeer skin ready made, with feathers, reindeer flesh, fi-ozensturgeon, mammoth tusks, etc. For these goods the Ostiaks receive flour,baked bread, tobacco, pots, kettles, knives, needles, brass buttons and rings, glasspearls, and other trifling articles. An open trade in spii-its is not allowed; butbrandy maybe sold as a medicine, and thus many an Ostiak takes advantage ofthe fair for undergoing a cure
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . e. Then the magazines of the traders gradually fill with furs—with clothes of reindeer skin ready made, with feathers, reindeer flesh, fi-ozensturgeon, mammoth tusks, etc. For these goods the Ostiaks receive flour,baked bread, tobacco, pots, kettles, knives, needles, brass buttons and rings, glasspearls, and other trifling articles. An open trade in spii-its is not allowed; butbrandy maybe sold as a medicine, and thus many an Ostiak takes advantage ofthe fair for undergoing a cure the reverse of that which is recommended by hy-dropathic doctors. 190 THE POLAR WORLD. Towards the end of Februaiy, wlien tlie Ostiaks have retired into the woods—where they hunt or tend their leindecr herds until the opening of the fisliiiig-seasoii recalls them to the Obi—the trader jjrepares for his journey to Irl)it,where he hopes to dispose of his fuis at an enormous profit, and Obdorsk isonce more left until the foUowiuG: winter to its death-like solitude. CONQUEST OF SIBERIA BY THE RUSSIANS. 191. TAGILSK. CHAPTER XVI. CONQUEST OF SIBERIA BY THE RUSSIANS—THEIR VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY ALONG THE SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA, Ivan the Terrible.—StrogonofF.—Yermak, the Robber and Conqueror.—His Expeditions to Siberia.—Battle of Tobolsk.—Yermaks Deatii.—Progress of the Russians to Okhotsk.—Semen Deshnew.—Condition of tlie Siberian Natives under the Russian Yoke.—Voyages of Discovery in the Reign ofthe Empress Anna.—Prontschisehtschew.—Chariton and Demetrius Laptew.—. Arctic Heroine.—Schalaurow.—Discoveries in tiie Sea of B3ring and in tlie Pacific Ocean.—Tiie Lichow Islands.—Fossil Ivory.—New Siberia.—The wonden Mountains.—The past Ages of Siberia. IN the beginning of the thirteenth centnr}, the now huge Empire of Russiawas confined to part of her present European possessions, and divided intoseveral independent principalities, the scene
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