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Cycle — Language and diversities —Literature — Love of gossip — Songs — Mongol women — Marriage customs and domestic relations — Hospitality and polite customs — Freedom of manners — Lamaism — Religious service — 'Оm mani padmi hom' — The Dalai Lama — Pilgrimages— The Clergy — Monasticism — Superstitions — Masses for the dead — The Author's view of Missions — Administrative organisation of the Mongol tribes — Grades of rank among chiefs, and their salaries — Population — Laws, punishment, and taxation — Military force — Decay of martial spirit |
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THE SOUTH-EASTERN BORDER OF THE MONGOLIAN PLATEAU.
Peking — First impressions — The streets and walls — European establishments — Preparations for the journey — Fire-arms and outfit — Insufficiency of funds and its consequence — Financial Arrangements — Chinese Currency — Inconvenience of the Copper Currency — Passport — Departure from Peking — Preliminary tour to the North — Ku-pe-kau gate in wall — Migration of wild-fowl — Road to Dolon-nor — Wood on the way — Jehol — Fauna of the route — Goitre — Khingan Range — Dolon-nor— Idol foundry — Shandu River — Tsagan Balgas — Sandhills called Guchin, gurbu or 'the 33' — A Steppe-fire on the Dalai-nor — The Lake Dalai — Birds on the lake — Mocking-bird — Surveying difficulties — Mode of surveying — Suspicions of the Natives — The Route plotted daily — Road back to Kalgan — Steppe horses — Imperial pasture lands — Climate of South-Eastern Mongolia — The two-humped camel — Its habits, uses, &c. — Arrival at Kalgan |
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THE SOUTH-EASTERN BORDER OF THE MONGOLIAN PLATEAU—(continued).
Reorganisation of the Party — Fresh start from Kalgan — R. C. Missions — Samdadchiemba, Huc's companion — Dishonest convert — Vigilance needed against thieves — Shara-hada Range — Suma-hada Range — The Argali; its habits and incidents of chase — Late spring — Lifeless aspects — The Urute country and Western Tumites — Tedious purchase of sheep — Dumb bargaining — Difficulties in purchase of milk — Our traffic with the Mongols — Throw off the trading character with advantage — |
