Show PRACTICE 1 1 IH THE ARCTIC REGION some horrible stories which coi from a remote tion of russia in asia at petersburg horrible account tre reaching st petersburg ot can and starvation among tribes ij habiting the arctic plain of chuich peninsula at the extremity of As most of the reindeer died of star vati during the winter of 1904 05 leahl the inhabitants without means ol 01 co or food during the la winter whole tribes have died aej members ol 01 the and tribes when facing starvation bled in council and decided that not ing remained but death they agreed that each head ot family should kill his wife and ch dren and then commit suicide tribesmen gathered on a plateau col ered with snow and ice and in th darkness of the arctic winter the spa tan decision was executed not gle member of the two ing more revolting still Is the story what occurred in a family of the Y bahir tribe A mother and nine of h children having died of hunger father a surviving daughter and nephew lived upon the remains an when they were consumed the bathe murdered the nephew A russia named dolginoff Dol ganoff who went to the r glon to buy furs reported the at siberia he entered snow hut of a family ahil the latter were eating the head ot murdered relative |