Nordenskiold, However, Considers It Probable That The Old Tradition Of Man-Eaters (_Androphagi_), Living In The North, Which Onginated With Herodotus, And Was Afterwards Universally Adopted In The Geographical Literature Of The Middle Ages, Reappears In Russianised Form In The Name _Samoyed_.

With all due respect for Nordenskiold, I am inclined to agree with Serebrenikoff.

In the account of the journey which the Italian minorite, Joannes de Piano Carpini, undertook in High Asia in 1245-47, an extraordinary account of the Samoyeds and neighbouring tribes is given. (See Vol. II. of these Collections, pp. 28 and 95). - I give a very curious engraving of Samoyeds from Schleissing. - Nordenskiold inserts, in his _Voyage of the Vega_, the following interesting communication from Professor Ahlquist, of Helsingfors: - .

"The Samoyeds are reckoned, along with the Tungoose, the Mongolian, the Turkish and the Finnish-Ugrian races, to belong to the so-called Altaic or Ural-Altaic stem. What is mainly characteristic of this stem, is that all the languages occurring within it belong to the so-called agglutinating type. For in these languages the relations of ideas are expressed exclusively by terminations or suffixes - inflections, prefixes and prepositions, as expressive of relations, being completely unknown to them. Other peculiarities characteristic of the Altaic languages are the vocal harmony occurring in many of them, the inability to have more than one consonant in the beginning of a word, and the expression of the plural by a peculiar affix, the case terminations being the same in the plural as in the singular.

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