The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . tier—a jour-ney which, besides the usual fatigues, involved the additional risk of being ar-rested as a spy by the Chinese authorities ; and the year after he visited Trans-baikalia, to make inquiries among the Buriat priests about the ancient historyof Siberia. Having thus accomplished his task, and thoroughly investigated the wild na-tions of the Finnish race from the confines of the Arctic Sea to the Altai—a task 178 THE POLAll WOULD. which cost him his health, and the best par
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . tier—a jour-ney which, besides the usual fatigues, involved the additional risk of being ar-rested as a spy by the Chinese authorities ; and the year after he visited Trans-baikalia, to make inquiries among the Buriat priests about the ancient historyof Siberia. Having thus accomplished his task, and thoroughly investigated the wild na-tions of the Finnish race from the confines of the Arctic Sea to the Altai—a task 178 THE POLAll WOULD. which cost him his health, and the best part of his energies—he longed tobreathe the air of his native country. But neither the pleasures of home, nora professorship at the University of Ilelsingfors, richly earned by almost super-nunian exertions, were able to arrest the germs of disease, which journeys suchas these could scarcely fail to plant even in his originally robust lingering some years, he died in 1855, universally lamented by his coun-try men, who justly mourned his early death as a national loss. THE SAMOIEDES. 179. A SAMOIEDE PKIEST. CHAPTER XIV. THE SAMOIEDES. Their Barbarism.—Niim, or Jilibeambaertje.—Shamanism.—Samoede Idols.—Sjadaei.—Ilahe.—The Ta-debtsios, or Spirits.—Ihe Tadibes. or Sorcerers.—Their Dress.—Their Invocations.—Tiieir conjuringTricks.—Reverence paid to the Dead.—A Samoiede Oath.—Appearance of tlie Samoiede?.—TheirDress.—A Samoiede Belle.—Character of the Samoledes.—Their decreasing Numbers.—Traditions ofancient Heroes. ^T^HE Saraoiedcs, the neighbors of the Laplanders, are still fartlier removed^ from civilized society, and plunged in even deeper barbarism. The wildesttundras and woods of Northern Russia and Western Siberia are the home ofthe Samoiede. With his reindeer herds he wanders over the naked wastes,from the eastern coast of the White Sea to the banks of the Chatanga, or huntsin the boundless forests between the Obi an
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