Note 5 — Chapter XXV · YAKUTSK.
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Strahlenberg divides them into 10 tribes, and Syboreen’s Almanack for 1876 gives their number at 210,000. They belong to the great Turk family, and hence their Siberian locality is remarkable, because the Turks have ever been the people to displace others, whereas the Yakutes have been themselves displaced, and driven into this inhospitable climate, it is supposed, by the stronger Buriats.