Note 13 — Chapter XLVI · THE GILYAKS.
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These aborigines do not bear a favourable character. Schrenk says that the Gilyaks of the mainland are avaricious and covetous in their commercial transactions, but that among those of Sakhalin this propensity seeks satisfaction in theft and robbery. I shall presently relate a case in which they murdered a missionary apparently for the sake of getting the little merchandise he possessed.