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This simple corded or matted ware seems to be in connection with Tunguse people who lived in the north-east.
A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949
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Hence he places his villages on narrow strips of coast, as do the Norse of Finmarken, the Eskimo and the Tunguse inhabiting the Arctic rim of Asia.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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This was the case in French Canada and till recent decades in Siberia, where intense cold and abundant river highways stimulated the fur trade to the practical exclusion of all other activities, and substituted for the closely grouped, sedentary farmers with their growing families the wide-ranging trader with his Indian or Tunguse wife and his half-breed offspring.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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The remainder were officials, criminal colonists, and natives of the Yakute, Lamute, or Tunguse races.
From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894
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Tunguse, a race noted for its predatory instincts and partiality for deer-meat.
From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894
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Alaric Hobbs reflected on his vain attempt to try the Tunguse, Chinook, Zuni, Apache,
A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874
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Ostyak and the Tunguse many tales resembling that of the bird Roc in the _Thousand and One Nights_.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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In 1799 a Tunguse found on the Tamut Peninsula, which juts out into the sea immediately south-east of the river-arm by which the _Lena_, steamed up the river, another frozen-in mammoth.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Tunguse with eighteen reindeer, [324] he travelled over land to the
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Instead of being Cheyennes or Sioux they proved to be Birars, a tribe of wandering Tunguse who inhabit this region.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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