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GUIDE TO THE GREAT SIBERIAN RAILWAY.
The native population of Siberia is divided with regard to its origin into
the following tribes: 1) Turks, 2) Finns and 3) Mongols.
Among the aborigenes of the country, the Kirgiz, Tatars, Bukh&rians
aud Yakuts belong to the Turk race.
The Kirgiz, forming the fundamental population of the Akmoli'nsk and Semi-
Pl. 49. Kirgiz removing their camp. (phot, by von Kinits).
palati nsk steppe regions, represented by above one million souls, speak a Turkish
dialect, profess Mohammedanism and are nomadic cattle-breeders (pi. 49, 50, 51).
The Tatars and Bukharians, who have  received an admixture of Finnish
and Mongolian blood, are met within all   the districts   of  the   Tobolsk   and
	
	
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PI. 50. Types of Kirgiz women and girls (phot by von Kinits).
Tomsk governments; they also speak a  Turkish dialect, profess Mohammed-
anism, and subsist by agriculture and trade.
A number of Tatars (pi. 52), inhabiting the Altai district, retain their nom-
adic   habits and their ancient   shamanistic faith.  Many of them  are related