D.
HYPERBOREAN MONGOLIDÆ.
We are now in Siberia rather than in Central Asia; along the courses of large rivers rather than at their head-waters; and in a region of tundras, or flat barren morasses, rather than on elevated steppes. We are also in the country of the rein-deer and dog rather than the horse and sheep. Fishing and fur-hunting, too, will form a portion of the occupations of the Hyperborean Mongolidæ. These conditions, different as they are in many respects from the general conditions of the Turk and Mongolian Turanians, have still been met with before, i.e. with the Northern Ugrians, the Northern Tungusians, and the Yakuts. One of the nations about to be enumerated, occupies the most northern portion of the inhabited world, i.e. the Samöeids of the Northern promontory of Asia.
HYPERBOREAN NATIONS AND TRIBES.
Physical conformation.—Undersized Mongols.
Languages.—-Agglutinate; neither monosyllabic nor pauro-syllabic.
Political relations.—Subject to either Russia or China.
Religion.—Shamanism or imperfect Christianity.
Distribution.—The coasts of the Arctic Ocean; the courses of the Yenisey and Kolyma. Area discontinuous.