This seems to be a quotation from someone, and as such a rare example of inscription in the notebook that otherwise tends to present archival materials or data based on Castrén’s observations. The quotation most probably reflects the days when the Nenets were small-scale reindeer herders or “reindeer-moved hunters and fishermen on the tundra and forest tundra”, as Krupnik (1993: 163) describes the situation before large-scale reindeer herding developed in the course of the 18th century. There is agreement that before that reindeer were used mostly for transportation, whereas the meat and skins were obtained by hunting wild reindeer, other game, wild fowl, and sea mammals. Additionally, only one or two reindeer per sledge were used, whereas the number of draught animals increased in the course of the development of the herd sizes. (See also Stammler 2005: 46–49)