_Vocabularies._--Of the Motori, Koibal, and Kamash.
_Area._--From the Mezene, between the Petchora and Archangel, and falling into the White Sea, to the Chatunga in 105° east longitude, along the coast of the Arctic Ocean, and on the lower courses of the Petchora, Obi, and Yenisey.
Southwards; on the Yenisey to Turokansk, on the Obi, as far as Tomsk. This is their nearest point to the Southern Samöeids.
_Conterminous_ with the Yakuts and Tungusians(?) on the east, the Yeniseians and Turks on the south, and the Ostiaks and Russians on the west.
_Name._--Of the northern Samöeids on the River Tas, between the Yenisey and the Obi, _Mokase_. Of those of the Lower Obi and White Sea, _Khasovo_=_men_.
Some of the Samöeid tribes are improperly called Ostiaks.
Called by themselves _Nyenech_=_men_. " ---- _Khasovo_=_men_. " the Obi Ostiaks _Jergan-yach_. " Tungusians _Dyândal_. " Syranians _Yarang_. " Woguls _Yorran-kum_. " Russians _Samöeid_.
_Vocabularies._--1. From Pustoserk, at the mouth of the Petchora. The north-westernmost locality.
2. From Obdorsk, at the mouth of the Obi.
3. From the River Tym, on the right side of the Obi.
7. From Tomsk, the southernmost locality.
8. From the parts between the Obi and Yenisey, the Yurass, the Tas, Mangaseia vocabularies.
10. From the east of Turuchansk. The Karass vocabulary.
11. From the parts about the Chatunga. The Tawgi vocabulary. These the most easterly specimens.
Of all the tribes of Siberia the Samöeids are nearest to the Eskimo, or Greenlanders, in their physical appearance. Varieties, however, have been described; some tribes having been called _tall_, others _fair_. The general character is that of the Laplander, and the Eskimo--the other circumpolar divisions of the human species.[87]
The Koibals are in all probability the most advanced of the Samöeids--being the owners of herds, flocks, horses, and camels(?).
As early as A.D. 1096, the term _Samöeid_ appears in the Russian chronicles, and it is to be found again in the Travels of Plan Carpin, a hundred and fifty years later.
_Locality._--Each side of Yenisey, limited by the Northern Samöeids between Inbask and Turuchansk, and by the Southern Samöeids and Turks, in the neighbourhood of Krasnoiarsk. On the west are the south-eastern tribes of the northern Samöeids. On the east Tungusians and Turks.