CHAPTER XVIII.

_THE YENESEI._

Sources of the river.--Discoveries of Wiggins and Nordenskiöld.--The Yenesei at Krasnoiarsk.--Current, width, depth.--Breaking up of ice.--The Yeneseisk province.--Geography.--Meteorology.--Forests.--Timber.--Fish of Yenesei.--Birds.--Russian population.--Navigation.--Corn and cattle.--Towns.--A Scoptsi village.--Salubrity of climate.--The aborigines.--Ethnology.--Tunguses.--Fur-bearing animals.--Methods of hunting.--Minerals 196