Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. 771 and the other Wanouta; a didindtion minutely obferved among them. This colony bears the name of Objondire; another which adjoins it that of Tihijondire, while that in the neighbourhood of Poudozer oppofite to the drait of Wagatz, commonly called Gougorlkoi, gives itfelf the name of Guaritzi. This favage nation occupies the ex- tent of more than 3o°of longitude, along the nothern coalls of the Ocean and Frozen Sea, between 66° and 70° of north latitude, and reckoning from the river Me- zene towards the eaft, beyond the Oby as far as Guenifee. All thefe Samoiedes, not- withdanding their being clifperfed over fo great an extent, and divided into different families, have doubtlefs a common origin; as appears from their phyfiognomy, their manners, their mode of living, and their language. On the other fide of the White Sea the Laplanders inhabit a wide fpread country, from Kandalax to Kola, and from the frontiers of Swedifh and Danilh Lapland to the ftraits of the White Sea ; they occupy more than a thoufand werds, or feven hundred miles. Neverthelefs all this large track of country is peopled by no more than twelve hundred families of Laplanders. I have united in this account the Laplanders and Sa- moiedes for no other purpofe than to defignate the exact pofition of the country, and the didridts inhabited by each. I am far from imagining with others, that thefe two people compofe but one nation. The gentleman from whom I hold thefe particu- lars, affures me of the contrary; and further he added, that M. Buffon is egregiouflv midaken in his Natural Hidory, when he reckons the Laplanders, the Zemblians, the Borandians, the Samoiedes, and all the Tartars of the north to be the fame race of people. On this fubjedt he obferved to me, that, in fpeaking of the Zemblians, he fpoke of an imaginary nation; it being well known, that the country denominated Nova Zembla never had inhabitants, navigators midaking for inhabitants of the country the crews of fome Ruffian veffels; particularly as the Ruffians, who go there to filh for feals, are accudomed to drefs in the fame manner as the Samoiedes. Another probability in favour of this opinion is, that the Ruffians who paffed the winter there, never once met with the lead trace of man, feeing no living creatures except white bears, white foxes, and rein-deer, which fed on mofs and filh that the fea threw on lhore. As for the Borandians, the name is utterly unknown in the north. I have as well been informed, that the crew of a veffel defirous of wintering there fome years after, had entirely perifhed. The twenty-four men of which it was compofed, were found dead, on the fpot fixed upon for their winter quarters. For a long time it was imagined that they peridied from extreme cold ; but it was fatisfadtorily ffiewn, that it was owing to the thick and unwholefome fogs, occafioned by the putrefaction of vege- tables, and mofs on the fea-fhore; which poifoned and dedroyed them. What con- firms this which I am dating, is that a colony from Mezene, compofed of twenty per- fons, who had edabliffied their dwelling at a place twenty leagues from the others, differed extremely from the fame fogs. Although none of them died, they were all ill. The terrible pedilence, which in the middle of the fourteenth century depopu- lated Iceland, was no other vifitation than one of thefe fogs. Some authors relate that filver has been found in certain places of Nova Zembla. This is not unlikely, fince it is current throughout Ruffia, that in the reign of the emprefs Ann feveral rocks were difcovered in a defert ifland, encruded with the fined filver. Bars of it were fent to Peterfburg. Great riches were looked for from this difcovery; the rocks were bored, but the interior was not found to contain any of this precious metal; that which had been met with being only a fimple crud, poffibly as old as the creation. The Samoiedes are for the molt part below the common fize, they have a dout, nervous frame, broad Ihoulders, and fhort legs, fmall feet, a ffiort neck, a very large head. 5 r 2 a'flat

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