Identifier: throughsiberia00lans (find matches)
Title: Through Siberia
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Lansdell, Henry, 1841-1919
Subjects: Prisons Prisoners Work camps
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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o it as they can by smoking tobacco. The distillationof sour milk is also practised, producing a coarse spiritknown as arigui. They devour likewise enormousquantities of melted butter. This also can be preparedin such a way as to cause intoxication when taken insufificient quantities. The dress of the Yakutes resembles in its mainfeatures that of the other natives of Siberia, save,perhaps, that they are fonder of ornaments. Bothsexes riding a good deal on oxen and horses, a perpen-dicular slit is made up the back from the bottom of thesanayakh, or upper garment, in order to render thewearer comfortable in the saddle, and some of thewomen add behind them a cushion or pad, to savethem from the rough motion of the animals. Duringthe milder part of the year a robe, made of very pliableleather, stained yellow, is worn, which indoors isfrequently laid aside, and males and females sit by thefire, leaving the upper part of the body naked. Ibought a pair of womens Yakute boots of this leather.
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TUNGUSE GIRLS IN WINTER COSTUME. Page 303. YAKUTSK. 303 They fit tight to the leg, and have at the top a flap ofblack velvet with red cloth trimming, which can beturned down and exposed for show in fair weather, orturned up, bringing the boots to the thighs. On eachboot are two broad leather thongs, five or six feet long,to wind round the leg. Waterproof boots are heremade, called by the Russians torbasis. These are cutfrom horse-hide, steeped in sour milk, then smoked,and finally rubbed well with fat and fine soot. Theylast exceedingly well, and are an inestimable comfortto the wearer, enabling him to tramp through snow,water, and mud without inconvenience. The Yakute women are clever in making up furgarments. When visiting a Yakute family, I was look-ing about for a souvenir, and could at first see nothingto buy. In the room hung a curious cradle, verynearly resembling a coal-scuttle, which, when travelling,they suspend at the side of a reindeer; but this was toolarge for me to bri

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