were received in a
very friendly way, and remained here over night. All the
inhabitants of the tent sleep together in the bedchamber
of it, which is not more than 2 to 2.4 metres long, 1.8 to
2 metres broad, and 1.2 to 1.5 metres high. Before they
lie down they take supper. Men and women wear during the
night only a _cingulum pudicitiae_, about fifteen
centimetres broad, and are otherwise completely naked. In
the morning the housewife rose first and boiled a little
flesh, which was then served in the bedchamber, before its
inmates had put on their clothes. She cut the meat in
slices in a tray, and distributed them afterwards. In the
morning we saw the Chukches catch and slaughter their
reindeer. Two men go into the herd, and when they have got
sight of a reindeer which they wish to have, they cast, at
a distance of nine or ten metres, a running noose over the
animal's horns. It now throws itself backwards and
forwards in its attempts to escape, and drags after it for
some moments the man who holds the noose. The other man in
the meantime endeavours to approach the reindeer, catches
the animal by the horns and throws it to the ground,
killing it afterwards by a knife-stab behind the shoulder.
The reindeer is then handed over to the women, who, by an
incision in the side of the belly, take out the entrails.
The stomach is emptied of its contents, and is then used
to hold the blood. Finally th skin is taken off.

"About 10 o'clock A.M. we commenced our homeward journey.
At nightfall we sought to have a roof over our head in a
wretched Chukch tent on the shore of Lake Utschunutsch. It
was partly sunk in one of the small mounds which are found
here along the shore, and which are probably the remains
of old Onkilon dwellings. The present inhabitants, two old
men and an old woman, had their habitation arranged in the
following way:--In the bottom of a cylindrical pit, one
metre deep and three and a half to four and a half metres
in diameter, a vertical pole was erected, against the
upper end of which rested a number of obliquely placed
bars, rising from the edge of the pit, which were covered
with skins. The enclosure or bedchamber, peculiar to the
Chukch tent, was not wanting here. Otherwise the whole
dwelling bore the stamp of poverty and dirt. The food of
t