Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Siberian Pictures, Vol. 1
To escape the severity of the climate, they either hid in holes or built sheds out of the bark of trees. Their dress was composed of skins of animals. They offered up bloody sacrifices, worshipped strength in animals, light and warmth in the sun, and the moon's power over the sea. Their histories, internal relations, as well as their wars, are a mystery; for, with these children of the desert, traditions carrying facts from generation to generation were completely unknown. As the old man's life waned, with it ended also his past history; and his descendants vegetated in the same monotonous way, not caring to improve their own state, or to take heed of what had happened before their time.
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