"The People There Are Called MESCRIPT; They Are A Very Wild
Race, And Live By Their Cattle, The Most Of Which Are Stags, And These
Stags, I Assure You, They Used To Ride Upon."
B. Laufer, in the Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association,
Vol.
IV., No. 2, 1917 (The Reindeer and its Domestication), p. 107, has
the following remarks: "Certainly this is the reindeer. Yule is inclined
to think that Marco embraces under this tribal name in question
characteristics belonging to tribes extending far beyond the Mekrit, and
which in fact are appropriate to the Tungus; and continues that
Rashid-eddin seems to describe the latter under the name of Uriangkut of
the Woods, a people dwelling beyond the frontier of Barguchin, and in
connection with whom he speaks of their reindeer obscurely, as well as of
their tents of birchbark, and their hunting on snowshoes. As W. Radloff
[Die Jakutische Sprache, Mem. Ac. Sc. Pet., 1908, pp. 54-56] has
endeavoured to show, the Wooland Uryangkit, in this form mentioned by
Rashid-eddin, should be looked upon as the forefathers of the present
Yakut. Rashid-eddin, further, speaks of other Uryangkit, who are genuine
Mongols, and live close together in the Territory Barguchin Tukum, where
the clans Khori, Bargut, and Tumat, are settled. This region is east of
Lake Baikal, which receives the river Barguchin flowing out of Lake Bargu
in an easterly direction. The tribal name Bargut (-t being the
termination of the plural) is surely connected with the name of the said
river."
LVII., p. 276.
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