Samoyedes
or SAMOIEDES, a people of Ural-Altaic stock, inhabiting the shores of the Arctic Ocean, both in Europe and Asia, from the Yenisei to the White Sea. They consist of two main groups, a S. resembling the Tartars, and a N. and more degraded group. They are nomadic, and live chiefly by fishing, hunting, and keeping reindeer. They are of small stature, have a flat, round, and broad face, thick lips, wide nose, little beard, black hair in small quantity.
Their religion is fetishism, though they have an idea of a great divinity; they are extremely superstitious, and generally peaceable. The reindeer supplies them ६ SAMP with food, clothing, tents, utensils, etc.
They number about 17,000. maize, broken or bruised, which is cooked by boiling, and often eaten with milk; and lanceolate fleshy leaflets. It grows lent, pale green, with bi-triternate leaves тит, an umbelliferous plant, very succu- SAMPHIRE, the Crithmum maritithe United States.