The Human Race

g the districts in the vicinity of the North Pole, small in statu

reindeer. They are spread over a vast surface, but are few in number. They support themselves by hunting and f

White Race, for they have lost, under the influences of climate and of their mode of life, the distinguishing characteristics of the Ye

families, taking the affinities of language as a basis. These are the Lapp, the Samoiede,

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e cheek-bones, the broad flat Mongol nose, a protruding forehead, and goggle eyes. Their complexion is a yellowish brown, and their h

APLAN

of June, July, and August there, returns in September to his winter quarters. In his journeys to and fro, he uses the reind

anty forests of Lapland and Siberia, the inhabitants of these barbarous

ive or six reindeer skins stretched round the fire form the beds of the whole family, to which the surrounding smoke serves as the only curtain. Their furniture consists of an iron pot and a few wooden pails. The Laplander carries in his pocket a horn

nished in numbers. Thirty years ago their number, counting all that could be

ettles down on the sea coast, and turns fisherman, while his wife spins wool. His existence in the midst of men of a different race is then a solitary one. He is a regular pariah, despised by both Swede and Norwegian. His hut, h

mmense antlers, interlaced the one with the other, produced the effect of a little forest, were grouped around the camp fires. Two young Laplanders and some dogs watched ov

fenced in with wire to give play to the baby's head. This log with its precious contents is then placed on the mother's back and she rejoins the rest.

LAPP C

moiede

rt themselves by hunting and fishing on the borders of the Frozen Ocean. They bear much resemblance to the Tunguses of whom we shall speak later. Their face is flat, round and broad, their lips are thick and turned up, and their nose is wi

schadale

ainted. They inhabit the southern portion of the peninsula that bears their name. They are short men with a tawny skin, black

SAMO

are of short stature, but their features are regular. The most remarkable of their physical characteristics is the extraordinary development of their hair. They are the hairiest of men, and it is this pe

s and by some of the inhabitants of the Caucasus. Their bodies are well formed a

uimaux

merican continent are inhabited by a people that have received the

ut as they are quite distinct from the other inhabitants of this continent, and as they have a much gr

ese poor people. Their eyes are black, small and wild, but show no vivacity. Their nose is very flat, and they have a small mouth, with the lower lip much thicker than the upper one. Some have been seen with plenty of hair on th

earest human abode to the North Pole. Men, women, and children, covered only by their filth, laid in heaps in a hut, huddled together in a kind of basket. A lamp, with a flame sixt

one. Fig. 95 represents a village, that is to say, a collection of huts made of block

AUX SUMMER

spring fisheries recommence, and with them movement and life begin anew. The poor wretched dens covered with snow are then the scenes of great activity. The masses of accumulated provisions are then brought out and piled up on the frozen ground: the women prepare the skins to make shoes of, and the men make a reserve store of harpoon

AUX WINTER

ing to Doctor Kane, the ch

nes, a narrow forehead, small eyes of a deep black, thin long lips, with two narrow rows of sound teeth, jet-black hair, a little of it on the upper lip and on the

overcoat. The father-in-law of one of his travelling companions wore boots of bearskin coming up to the knee, whilst those of his wife reached much higher, and were

UIMAUX

ad like the cowl of a monk. The women cut their coat to a point, in order to confine their hair, which they gather together on the to

QUIMAU

the wild inhabitants of the shores of the Frozen Ocean of America, as the reindeer is the

MAUX BIRD

ood to these people. The Esquimaux run all sorts of risks to gather the eggs of

y have no system of notation, and can assign no date to past events. The

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They speak a very different language from that of the Ostiaks of t

e and Kori

population. They live on the shores of Behring's Straits, or in the inter

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