. 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. 264 THE P
. 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. 264 THE POLAR TCnUKTCni PIPE. catt'il for the time. The desire to procure a few of its narcotic leaves iiuhicos tfio American Kscjiiimatix, from the ley Cape to Bristol IJay, to semi tlieir ])ro(l- uee from liand to hand as far as the Gwoedew Islands in Bering's Straits, where it is bartered for the tobacco of the Tchuktchi, and these again princi- pally resort to the fair of Osfrownoje to purchase tobacco from the llussiais. (ienerally the rchukt(!hi receive from the Americans as many skins for half a poud, or eighteen pounds, of tol>acco-leaves tliey afterwards sell to the Hus- KJans for two pouds of tobacco of tlie same quality. These cost the Hassian merchant about 100 roubles at the very utmost, while the skins which he obtains in barter are worth at least 260 at Jakutsk, and are more double that sum at St. Petersburg. The furs of thi- Tchuktchi principal!y consist of black and silver-gray foxes, Ktone-foxes, gluttons, lyiixes, otters, beavers, and a fine species of marten wliich docs not occur in Siberia, and approaches the sabl" in value. They also bring to the fair bear-skins, walrus-thongs and teeth, sledge-rimners of whale-rihs, and ready-made clothes of reindeer skin. The American furs are generally packeii in of barterin? their commodities against the goods of the Tchuktchi. Fancy this barbaious assembly meeting every year during the inte
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