A NEW GAME REGION
(tin- mifrlit\ hunters who are looking •or ni-w Ileitis ro conquer, after exhaustinn; the possibilities of Africa and South America, ma\ I urn their eyes eastward to the country of the Soyote-s. This is an almost unknown territory in As ; a, in the upper vnllpv ol the Yenisei Uivcr, lvinj» partly in China and nartly in Sihet i-i. In July. 191 1. a Norwegian expedition, led by Mr Orian Olson undertook the exploration of this region. It compris san extent ol more titan 150.000 square kilometre-. inhabited hy soinp 15.000 to 20.000 Sovotcs. These are individuals belonging to the h'inno-i'igain race, i.e., io the same race as the Finns, the Lapps, the Samoyods and the Ostiaks. though residing th«" s ands of miles distant from the". They live mainly bv raising cattle or reindeer, The oxnedition r - |'err<H] t 0 a hovc has recently returned to Kurene and published an ap "oiim of
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13488, 19 May 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)
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157A NEW GAME REGION Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13488, 19 May 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)
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