CHAPTER XX..
Herding Deer.-Nightly Detail.-Separating the Herd.-A Charge Catavan.-Arteran River.--Asungorun.-Colowinga Ridge.some Deer.-Deermanship.-Guides desire a Halt.-Deceptions ping Morning.-Our Tent at Daybreak.-Morning Routine.-St
Fire.-Justifiable Profanity.-A bejeweled Landscape.-Forty-six grees below Zero. -Early Start.-Asungorun.-Bnrned Tract.-Ned
-A dead Forest.-Parhelia.-Ounene.-Mertee.-Mixed-up Geograp -Alexai's Brother.-Deserted Yourt.-Dispatch Messengers.-Their ^
cess.-The Convention.-Meeting of the Brothers.-Undemonstrativena -A Night Search.--A frigid Region.-Mahood's Departure.-Arrivdal Deer.-On the Road again.-Horseshoe Course.-Mahood's Camp.-El, vated Lands.-Across the Juggur.-Contrast.-Descent.-Urta Biver.Encampment.-Tala.-Umka.-A Treat.-Military Necessity.-CoB kan.-Long and last Journey with Reindeer.-Dogs again.-Down i Oulia.-Sled from Ourak.-Departure for Onrak.-Swartz as Rear g -Along the Coast.-Poorga Guides.-Ourak.-Habitations.-The kouts.-Character.-Appearance.-Early History.-Ending our Taik.
Okhotsk.-Disappointment.-Desolation.-Okhota River.-History
Summer Sports.-Fish.
WHERE reindeer are owned in such large herds as was t
ease with old Ivan, the greater part of them are in a state,
- semi-wildness, and, though they will not flee at the appr    '
of man, yet their extreme shyness makes it very difficult
capture them.    Like sheep, they always herd together,
look to certain animals as their leaders.    Wherever leaders go they follow, but can rarely be induced to p
them, except after being thoroughly trained. The Tungu
-  always make it a point to train these leading deer first,
to accustom them to the presence of man, after which serve as herders for the rest, and prevent them from w
ing off  This trait lessens the care of the owners very n though great vigilance is required on their part.to pr the herd from wolves, which are constantly prowling a:  eiOffect this, one or two men are nightly detailed as a
u    s task during some of the extremely cold or s
'  T>fthdeer for our journey had to be separated from
a t   herd, which numbered upward of three hund