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The collective farm sent us on a business trip to see how many reindeer there were. |
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After counting them and loading them we went back. On the way we didn't meet a single person. |
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We travelled for a long time, then reached a large collective farm and took the reindeer, a hundred and fifty reindeer. I had travelled for about half a month. |
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They gave us a special guide. |
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We crossed six rivers and reached the village council. We went to see what sort of house stood in the forest. |
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We all went. There was a very high shining hill there. |
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When we approached on the road, my friends said: "We have reached an interesting place." |
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There was a large, very large pile there. |
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All sort of hare skins, even fox skins were there, all sort of cartridges, a pot, a jar, a mug, a kettle, all sort of sticks and ropes. |
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Everything was there. |
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Then the guide said: "In the olden days, in the time of the ancient people, when people roamed on reindeer they used to stop here to have a rest. When they sat there, there was an old woman, a grandmother. |
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That old woman had two children. |
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They saw that old woman had drowned under the snow sitting on a reindeer, her body was broken. |
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Her children looked and asked what happened, but she didn't answer. Comment:
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She didn't answer at all. Her voice disappeared and she waved her hand. |
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She said: "Well, go away." |
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They went away, spent two nights somewhere, and came again. |
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They looked there: only the top of a reindeer horn was seen. |
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Their mother was there, but only a pile of snow remained from her. |
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So we, people, should know, that when we are here, when we are in the vicinity we can only see the head of the reindeer, its horn." |
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That woman was not there. There were old piles gathered there, up to about that high on a man. |
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Such piles were gathered there. |
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Then we walked further and came to a place on lake Protoka. Comment:
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There were clearings there. There was a cross standing in one clearing. |
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I said: "What about this cross?" He said: "It is also here. |
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People fought with a wild man here. Comment:
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They fought him and defeated him. |
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A monument is erected for that, a pole." |