country of the Russian empire, between Asiatic Tartary and Archangel, lying along the sea-coast as far as Siberia. The inhabitants are rude a people, that they can hardly pretend to humanity, except in their face and figure: they have little understanding; and in many things resemble brutes, for they will eat carrion of every kind. They travel on the snow on sledges, drawn with an animal like a rein-deer, but with the horns of a stag. Those who have seen them affirm, that no people on the earth make such shocking figures: their stature is short; their shoulders and faces are broad, with flat broad-noses, great blubber hanging ligs, and staring eyes; their complexion is dark, their hair long and as black as pitch, and they have very little beards; and it is said that all the Samoied women have black nipples. If they have any religion at all, it is idolatry, though there has been some attempts of late to convert them. Their huts are made of birch bark sewed together, which is laid upon stakes set in the ground, and at the top is a hole to let out the smoke; the fire is made in the middle, and both men and women lie naked round them all night. They have little regard to the nearest of kin, and take as many wives as they can keep; their only employment is hunting and fishing.