ABSTRACT
W ITHIN and beyond. the northern forests of Asia cattle and horses become increasingly difficult to raise and domestic reindeer take their place among herding peoples. The Yakut have, it is true, since their recent northward movement, endeavoured to retain the cattle-breeding economy on the tundra to the west of the middle Lena river. Gathering scanty supplies of hay, constructing winter byres and even inducing their animals to eat meat, they raise a few horses and cattle in these far northern latitudes. The reindeer is, however, native to the taiga and tundra zones and the habits of the wild herds have been dis'cussed in an earlier chapter.
