The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-20

! fishing over q large area. as did the
| American Indians on the introduction Of
| ponies.
PECULIAR FORM OF SLEDGE.
| Numerous bands have adopted peculiar
| form of sledge. having stanchions fitted
into circular holes in the runners. fast
ened with thongs: circular bowlike
| forepart for attaching the traces. after
the manner of Siberian dog teams.
| The fungus do not Use shepherd dogs in
managing their herds; their lean, small,
| nimble-foOted CANNES are for hunting pur-
poses only and retain all the ferocious
habits of their days of freedom. As such
dogs consider the reindeer legitimate prey
| they are carefully restrained to prevent
them from dispensing the herds. The Tun-
gus reindeer are sufficiently tame to be
/ MIXED and operated in the postal service
| and by merchant caravans.
The animal is variable in his domes-
| ucation: the reindeer Of the Chukchis can
not be MIXED without Il struggle and the
European and adjoining Asiatic tribes
I.apianders. European Samoyeds and
Ienissey Samoyeds-manase their herds
| with shepherd dogs.
Inc koryaks and Chukcliis. living east
ana north of fungus. own the most nu-
merous herds of the several groups of
reindeer breeders and use exclusively the
slcdge.
~ IS tDefr degree OF domestic
| cation that one is tempted TO believe that
they in early times inflated rather than
acquired, tame reindeer from their neigh
bore and attempted to domesticate the
Wild animals o: their own country, since
their animals revert to the wild state at
the first opportunity.
Milking them IS impossible. and in har-
ness they are difficult to manage. unable
TO endure prolonged or regular service.
4 hn md ..F
and around Baron Korff's Bay combine
reindeer breeding and fishing. part of the
tribes wandering in the mountains with
their charges and the reindeer being oc-
cupied with their nets or sea hunts
Each band has village on the coast
and several camps having constant inter-
course, as every fisherman or hunter has
at least several reindeer in charge of
some relative or hcrdsman.
The herdsmcn and fishermen. too. often
interchange occupations. The ancestors
of the people of nearly all coast villages,
which now exist solely on the fisheries,
had reindeer a century and 4 half ago.
AT that time half of all the camps had
herds. dividing their support with seal
hunting During the last century the
herds increased in size and number.
With the advent of the Russians war;
fare was conducted OH the Koryak border
ny tue 1uuhCnlS CiIelly " carly away TIC
reindeer herds, compelling the koryaks
of opuka and Khatyrka in 1889 to live
in underground huts and on roots and
fish.
ROBBED REINDEER DEALERS.
The present fishing Koryaks of Opuka
River claim to he descendants OF the
robbed reindeer breeders. and in reality
they do speak the reindeer koryak dilect,
differing from that OF their maritime
neighbors.
All Chukchi tales ascribe the same
origin TO the border wars. The ancestral
reindeer Koryaks ara described as having
large herds. on which they lived. being
unskilled fishermen.
The reindeer Chukchis are represented
as semimaritime people. having an
aversion to the interior and being ready
to risk their lives to procure their favor
lite food of sea meats, whaleskin and seal
blubber.
In the folklore tale of Elendi and his