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The walrus ones are worn mostly by men, and sewn [in hori-
zontal stripes] across the body, the seal ones, wsewn length-
wise, worn mostly by women. Some kamleis are from whale guts.

"Although we were told that they always live in one place,
we saw many various kinds of sleds near every yurt, and there-
fore concluded that, in all probability, they move from here
to somewhere in the interior of the country, which was con-
firmed by the fact that we had not seen a single winter yurt
here. One must suppose that they move over here to hunt wal-
rus, seal, whale, fish, and birds, which provide them food
for the whole summer and a reserve for winter, which we saw
buried in the ground.

"In every yurt, we saw kettles--copper, iron, cast-iron,
pewter, and clay. The metal ones they probably get from Kolyma
or Gizhiga, and the clay ones they make themselves, only I
do not know where they get the clay. Their food they often
use raw.

"From the vocabulary collected by us and compared with
the vocabulary of Captain Billings, and from the fact that
the Chukchi better understood our interpreter of the Chukotski
language than the Aleut talking in Kadiak, it had to be con-
cluded that we were dealing with the nomadic or Deer Chukchi.

"Concerning the Sedentary Chukchi I can only note the
following. The eight persons who came to us in one baidar
understood rather well the Aleut interpreter, but did not
understand at all the Chukchi one. However, from their out-