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These very same words have been applied to the Ostyaks, the Samoyedes, the Eskimos, the Dayaks, the Aleoutes, the Papuas, and so on, by the highest authorities.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

Among the Ostyaks such elopements, to avoid payment, are frequent.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

Ostrogoths, the, 449 Ostyaks, the, 275, 277, 303, 325, and Pl.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

ERMAN, on the fat-tailed Kirghisian sheep. -on the dogs of the Ostyaks.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles

But though the Ostyaks are poor, they possess a great treasure in their dogs, for these creatures are as useful as horses, and much more sensible.

From Far Off by Mortimer, Favell Lee