Among the Votiaks it is not uncommon to find ten or p. 180 more adults in a single family, not including children; for there may be three or four married brothers living with their parents in one large family. 1 A family of from twenty-five to thirty persons in one house is not uncommon, and north of the ??eptsa, in the government of Vi??tka, there are families of even forty persons. 2 Among the M