Tungus who looked like the 'Pekin Tartars'
Editorial contextDobell says the Tungus he met on the Okhotsk to Yakutsk road looked strikingly like 'the Tartars, who have conquered China', meaning the Manchus. His two Cantonese servants, who had seen Manchu bannermen in Beijing, agreed, and the servants and the Tungus greeted each other as 'brats', Russian for brothers. It is a vivid glimpse of 'Tartar' meaning Manchu in an English book of 1830.
means of my two Chinese servants, who were born in Canton, and had seen many of the Pekin Tartars, and were themselves struck with the likeness between them and the Tongusees. They always called each other brats (which means, in Russian, brothers) when they met
About Tungus (Evenki), compared with the Manchus of Beijing
Keep in mind
A comparison of faces made by the author and his servants; it proves nothing about ancestry.
A priest flogs his Tartar guides
Editorial contextIn a footnote Sauer tells why he calls the expedition's priest 'more than savage'. On the road to Okhotsk the priest lost some food, assumed his two Tartar guides had stolen it, and had them tied to trees and flogged so badly that one died. Runaway exiles turned out to be the thieves. The priest said no harm was done because the guides were not Christians.
On a mere supposition that his two Tartar guides had taken it, he tied each of them up by an arm to a tree, and had them flogged to such a degree, that one of them died, and the other never recovered the use of his arm: it was afterwards known, that some runaway exiles hid in the woods were the thieves.
About 'Tartar' guides (on this road, most likely Yakuts)
Keep in mind
Sauer was not present; he tells it to show the priest's character. The same priest burned the Aleuts' carved masks, as Sauer reports on this page.