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TRAVELS IN TARTARY a B LUE

CHAPTER ONE. . ,- . : - De eR os 4 ®

Preparations for Departure — Wretched State of the Kingdom of Ouniot — A Tartar-Chinese Inn. The Missionaries Become Lamas — Samdadchiemba — The “Good Mountain.” Exquisite Courtesy of Bandits — Detestable First Meal of the Nomad Life — The Imperial Forest and the Great Obo — The Kingdom of Gechekten. How the Mongols are Ruined by the Chinese — Tragic Exploitation of a Gold Mine — Stolen Horses. Samdadchiemba, Caster of Horoscopes — Nearing Tolon-Noor.

CHAPTER TWO . . 4 : . A : . * : P * Fourie

Meal at a Chinese Restaurant — Tolon-Noor: Its Commerce, Its Art Foundries. Influence of Occidental Religion — Picturesque Encampment. Culinary Progress. Tea in Bricks — Encounter with a Queen of the Khalkhas — Deluge. How One Tartar Vanquished the English — The Red Banner. Awe-inspiring Effect of the Tartar Plains — Tartar Customs, Their Urbanity. A Tartar Tent. Horsemen and Hunters— A Search for Water. Sudden Typhoon — Samdadchiemba’s Story. Tribulations of an Apprentice Lama — Destruction of a City of Grey Squirrels.

CHAPTER THREE S 5 ; e : : . = 0 A 2 : a

Festival of the Loaves of the Moon— Feast in a Tartar Tent. Great

Embarrassment over a Sheep’s Tail — The Invocation to Timour

— The Mongol Singer — Training of Young Tartars. The Mongol and His Horse— Education of Women—The Mournful City of Chaborté. Incident of the Lost Horses — The Ruined Cities of Mongolia — Prayers for a Sick Woman — Mongol Medicine — Terrifying Exorcism — Funeral Customs — Human Sacrifices. Children Stuffed with Mercury — The Kingdom of Efe. The Young Wrestlers — Encounter with Three Wolves. How These Beasts Are Hunted.

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CHAPTER FOUR . 2 £ 2’ a i ae «| e; «

Piety of the Mongols. Founding of a Lamasery. Prayers and Psalmodies — Marvellous Dissection of a Deer. The Unexpected Guest — A Rarity: Tartar Farmers! — The Blue Town. Manchu Lack of Originality. Their Skill in Archery — Appearance of the Old Blue Town — The Obliging Chinaman — A Turkish Hostelry. The Inn of the Three Perfections — Spoliation of the Mongols by the Chinese — The Money-changer Confounded — The Old-Clothes-Dealer — The Camel Market — Domestic Lamas. Wandering Lamas. Lamas in Community — China Disturbed by the Mongol Awakening.

CHAPTER FIVE : is

A Tarter-eater —Loss of Arsalan— Encounter with an Immense Turkish Caravan — Inhospitable Inns — Kindness of an Old Mongol Shepherd — Flood of the Yellow River— Discussions. Severe Hardships — The Warden of the Little Temple. An Exciting Embarkation — The Boatman’s Quarrel with a Camel. Further Hardships.

CHAPTER SIX ts

On the Bank of the Paga-Gol. The Battle Against the Lice, The Mercury Necklace. Tartar Customs in Dealing with Lice — The Pleasures of Rest. Washing. A Fuel-Hunt— Nomadic Birds. A Model Ménage. The Dragons Foot— Adventures with a Fisherman— Kindness Recompensed — Difficult Passage of the Paga-Gol — Encounter with the Prime Minister of the Ortous.

CHAPTER SEVEN « « O s. owm® 6

Miserable Appearance of the Ortous Country — Social Classes among the Tartars, Slavery —A Theologic Dispute. Vexation of a Lama — Election of a Living Buddha— Organization of a Lamasery. Education by Blows. Canonic Books— A Torrential Storm. Cold.

Refuge in a Cave— The Unexpected Neighbour. Insolence of the

Sparrows. A Drama near the Caves. A Mongol Marriage— Condition of the Mongol Women, Polygamy. Divorce. The Feminine Costume.

Chapter Eight

Ordeal by Smoke — From Arctic Cold to the Warmth of Spring — A Lama Who Cuts Open His Abdomen — Other Astonishing Prac-

CONTENTS tices — Pilgrimage by Prostration— Curious Methods of Prayer — The Country of Nitre and Salt— Remarks on the Camels of Tartary.