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Among the Chukchees a deer can be purchased for a pound of tobacco, but the price increases as one travels southward. With the Koriaks it is four or five roubles, at Ohotsk ten or fifteen, and on the banks of the Amoor not often less than fifty. South of the Amoor the reindeer is not a native. I am inclined to discredit marry stories of the wonderful swiftness of this animal.
The whole land is frozen, isn't it, most of the year?" she questioned. "They had sealing rifles, and the Koriaks make out farther north in their roofed-in pits. One can live on seal and walrus meat and blubber." Agatha shivered. "But they had no tents, nor furs, nor blankets. It's horrible to imagine it." "Yes," agreed Wyllard gravely; "that's why I'm going for them." Agatha sat still a moment.
A beach with a roaring surf on it, and if we get a boat through, a desolate, half-frozen swamp behind it. It's quite likely there are people in the country, Koriaks or Kamtchadales, but, if there are, they'll probably move up and down after what they get to eat like the Huskies do, and we can't hang on and wait for them. 'Most any time next month we'll have the ice closing in."
One muddy dog shook himself over me; I forgave him, but his driver did not, the innocent brute receiving several blows for making his toilet in presence of passengers. The Koriaks have a habit of sacrificing dogs to obtain a fortunate fishery. The animals are hung on limbs of trees, and the sacrifice always includes the best.
It's narrower across to Alaska there, and it's quite likely they might have a notion of looking out for one of the steam whalers. The Koriaks up yonder will have boats of some kind. If the boats are skin ones like those the Huskies have they might sledge them on the ice."
They were Koriaks, and we lived with them a long while a winter and a summer anyway. It was more, perhaps I can't remember." He broke off with a vague gesture, and sat looking at the others vacantly with his lean face furrowed. "We must have been with them two years but I don't quite know. It was all the same up yonder ever so far to the north."
The best Asiatic dogs are among the Koriaks, near Penjinsk Gulf, the difference being due to climate and the care taken in breeding them. Dogs are the sole reliance for winter travel in Kamchatka, and every resident considers it his duty to own a team. They are driven in odd numbers, all the way from three to twenty-one.
They were Koriaks, and we lived with them a long while a winter and a summer anyway. It was more, perhaps I can't remember." He broke off with a vague gesture, and sat looking at the others vacantly with his lean face furrowed. "We must have been with them two years but I don't quite know. It was all the same up yonder ever so far to the north."
The whole land's frozen, isn't it, most of the year?" "They'd sealing rifles, and the Koriaks make out farther north in their roofed-in pits. One can live on seal and walrus meat and blubber." Agatha shivered. "But they'd no tents, or furs, or blankets. It's horrible to imagine it." "Yes," said Wyllard, gravely, "that's why I'm going for them." Agatha sat still a moment.
It is found on the north-west coast of America, among the Esquimaux, and in Asia, among the Kamtschatdales, and the Koriaks, where girls of ten years old are often mothers. It may appear astonishing, that the time of gestation the duration of pregnancy, never alters in a state of health, in any race, or in any climate.
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