Instead of being forced to marry a greasy princess, and to become proficient in interclannish warfare and reindeer-stealing, I should have travelled easily and peaceably to St.Petersburg." "Oh, these heroes! Are they not exasperating, Frona?
But what about the reindeer-stealing and the greasy princesses ?" The Gold Commissioner's wife beamed upon him, and glancing for permission to Frona, he went on.
"The coast people were Esquimo stock, merry-natured and happy, and inoffensive.

They called themselves the Oukilion, or the Sea Men.

I bought dogs and food from them, and they treated me splendidly.

But they were subject to the Chow Chuen, or interior people, who were known as the Deer Men.

The Chow Chuen were a savage, indomitable breed, with all the fierceness of the untamed Mongol, plus double his viciousness.
As soon as I left the coast they fell upon me, confiscated my goods, and made me a slave." "But were there no Russians ?" Mrs.Schoville asked.
"Russians?
Among the Chow Chuen ?" He laughed his amusement.
"Geographically, they are within the White Tsar's domain; but politically, no.