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force him to remain stationary for days and even weeks. A Compass cannot be of much use in this mountainous country where a false step or a team of dogs becoming unmanageable can lead to fatal consequences. Such a travel certainly is not without danger, especially as all means for making the road more practicable have been neglected through the carelessness of the inhabitants, who themselves know but little about the country, when forty or fifty versts from ^[[their]] homes.

The settled population of the few villages along the coast is a mixture of Russians, Koriaks, and Taksutis, but there is also a floating or wandering population. The Tunguzi, or as some persons call them, Lamu-ti, to the reverse of the Koriaks, who wander in preference over plains, the Tunguzi are inhabitants of Woods and wander over the mountains extending from Kolyna nearly to the Amoor.

These tribes never use sleighs and their immigrations are always done on reindeer's back, a very uncomfortable mode of locomotion. They differ considerably from the Koriaks in regard to character and wealth. Here we find a sort of shrewd servility, mixed with the proverbial [[underlined]]obstination[[/underlined]] of the Asiatic races, instead of the somewhat rough frankness of the wild but open hearted Koriax. The Tunguzi are generally poor, owning a very limited number of