Note 1024 — VIII PRIMITIVE AGRICULTURAL RACES
Reading edition
Krasheninicoff, History of Kamtchatka, p. 216. De Lesseps (Travels, vol. i, p. 133) puts the average at four to five children. It may be noticed that according to Pallas (Reise, vol. iii, p. 77) the Samoyeds do not cohabit for two months after the birth of a child.