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Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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aps represent the primitive stock from which the Magyarssprang. They are an undersized hunting people, not more than 5,000in number. With theirthick furs,says M. Rec-lus, the hoods deckedto right and left withanimals ears, they at adistance look like wildanimals; but their coun-tenance is timid, evenfrightened. Theyshave off their hair andmoustaches. They haveconformed to the GreekChurch and been bap-tized, but they still havetheir family totems,—bows and arrows, circles,etc.,—tattooed on theirheads, arms, and legs.Their tribes are veryisolated, reduced almostto families, and theyare but little united.Wives are left on veryslight provocation ; andinstances are known ofthe hunter living soli-tary after such a divorce,with only his reindeerand his dog for com-pany. Their burials arevery simple ; a hole dugin the gTound when amember died suffices, inwhich is placed, withthe deceaseds weapons,some tobacco andspirits. The Voguls are pe-culiar in not using salt,dry in strips in the air.
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OSTIAK OF OBI BASIN. The meat which they do not eat at once, theyThey are very slight vegetable eaters, livingchiefly upon the flesh of the elk. The fur of the sable is one of their I 420 THE INHABITANTS OF ASIA. principal objects of trade ; but they pay tbeir tribute by means of elk skins. Coming now to the north-eastern part of Siberia, we find a fewremnants of ancient peoples whose relationship it is by no means easyto settle, and who are probably doomed to extinction. A large tract ofthe north-east is occupied by the Tchukchi, whom some con-The TchukchL ^.^^^ merely a branch of the Esquimaux, while others regardthem as more nearly felated to the Koriaks, who occupy the countrybetween them and the Kamchadales. The Tchukchi are a hardy race,who long successfully withstood the Russians, and still number twelve

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