How much he has missed of real life! Reindeer form the circulating medium, and all values are expressed in this four-footed currency.

The animal supplies nearly every want.

They eat his meat and pick his bones, and not only devour the meat, but the stomach, entrails, and their contents.

When they stew the mass of meat and half digested moss, the stench is disgusting.

Captain Kennan told me that when he arrived among the Koriaks the peculiar odor made him ill, and he slept out of doors with the thermometer at -35 deg.