This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII THE URIANKHAI AND THEIR REINDEER "They have no horses, but in the stead of them they tame certain wild beasts which they call Reem, being of the just bigness of a Mule, with rough hair like an Ass, cloven feet and branched horns like a Harte but lower and with few antlettes. I suppose ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII THE URIANKHAI AND THEIR REINDEER "They have no horses, but in the stead of them they tame certain wild beasts which they call Reem, being of the just bigness of a Mule, with rough hair like an Ass, cloven feet and branched horns like a Harte but lower and with few antlettes. I suppose that this thing was somewhat known to the old writers, although received in manner by an obscure and doubtful fame. For they also write that certain Sythians do ride on Hartes." Thus Richard Eden, as long ago as 1555, recorded for the first time in the English language the information he had gathered of the "North east Frosty Seas and Kingdoms lying that way," and thus he gave us the first intimation of the reindeer-keeping tribes of Northern Asia. Marco Polo, too, passed on to us the information he had gained during his journeys in Cathay, and mentioned certain people, inhabiting a region along the Northern Frontier of the Chinese Empire, who were a "wild race and lived by their cattle, which were stags, and these stags they used to ride upon." 1 In the few 1 These references apply broadly to the forest-dwelling tribes of Southern Siberia near Lake Baikal, and cannot be taken as specially referring to the Uriankhai of the Upper Yenisei region. references we have of these people we find emphasis is always laid upon the fact of this (to them) unique custom of keeping and rearing "stags" as a means of livelihood, as well as for transport. The existence of the reindeer-keeping races in Southern Siberia appealed strongly to the imagination of the writers on China, who had perhaps never come in contact with the Lapps, Finns, and Samoyedes, representing the reindeer-tribes of the far north. In spite of the knowledge handed down to us by these old...
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