Category: Travel Writing
French Mission of Peking--Glance at the Kingdom of 9 Ouniot--Preparations for Departure--Tartar-Chinese Inn--Change of Costume--Portrait and Character of Samdadchiemba--Sain-Oula (the Good Mountain)--The Frosts on Sain-Oula, and its Robbers--First Encampment in the Desert--Gre...
Hotel of Justice and Mercy--Province of Kan-Sou--Agriculture--Great Works for the Irrigation of the Fields--Manner of Living in Inns--Great Confusion in a Town caused by our Cam...
13. CHAPTER II.Inn at Tolon-Noor--Aspect of the City--Great Foundries of Bells and Idols--Conversation with the Lamas of _Tolon-Noor_--Encampment--Tea Bricks--Meeting with Queen _Mourguevan_--...
21. CHAPTER X.Purchase of a Sheep--A Mongol Butcher--Great Feast _a la Tartare_--Tartar Veterinary Surgeons--Strange Cure of a Cow--Depth of the Wells of the Ortous--Manner of Watering the An...
14. CHAPTER III.Festival of the Loaves of the Moon--Entertainment in a Mongol tent--_Toolholos_, or Rhapsodists of Tartary--Invocation to Timour--Tartar Education--Industry of the Women--Mongol...
22. CHAPTER XI.The Tartars, descended from the ancient Scythians, have preserved to this day the dexterity of their ancestors in archery and horsemanship. The early part of their history is ve...
19. CHAPTER VIII.Glance at the Country of the Ortous--Cultivated Lands--Sterile, sandy steppes of the Ortous--Form of the Tartar-Mongol Government--Nobility--Slavery--A small Lamasery--Election...
20. CHAPTER IX.Departure of the Caravan--Encampment in a fertile Valley--Intensity of the Cold--Meeting with numerous Pilgrims--Barbarous and Diabolical Ceremonies of Lamanism--Project for the...
15. CHAPTER IV.Young Lama converted to Christianity--Lamasery of Tchortchi--Alms for the Construction of Religious Houses--Aspect of the Buddhist Temples--Recitation of Lama Prayers--Decoratio...
12. CHAPTER I.French Mission of Peking--Glance at the Kingdom of _Ouniot_--Preparations for Departure--Tartar-Chinese Inn--Change of Costume--Portrait and Character of Samdadchiemba--_Sain-Ou...
16. CHAPTER V.The Old Blue Town--Quarter of the Tanners--Knavery of the Chinese Traders--Hotel of the Three Perfections--Spoliation of the Tartars by the Chinese--Money Changer's Office--Tart...
17. CHAPTER VI.A Tartar-eater--Loss of Arsalan--Great Caravan of Camels--Night Arrival at Tchagan-Kouren--We are refused Admission into the Inns--We take up our abode with a Shepherd--Overflow...
18. CHAPTER VII.Mercurial Preparation for the Destruction of Lice--Dirtiness of the Mongols--Lama Notions about the Metempsychosis--Washing--Regulations of Nomadic Life--Aquatic and Passage Bir...
11. CHAPTER XII.Hotel of Justice and Mercy--Province of 262 Kan-Sou--Agriculture--Great Works for the Irrigation of the Fields--Manner of Living in Inns--Great Confusion in a Town caused by our...
3. CHAPTER III.Festival of the Loaves of the Moon--Entertainment in a 61 Mongol Tent--Toolholos, or Rhapsodists of Tartary--Invocation to Timour--Tartar Education--Industry of the Women--Mongo...
4. CHAPTER IV.Young Lama converted to Christianity--Lamasery of 85 Tchortchi--Alms for the Construction of Religious Houses--Aspect of the Buddhist Temples--Recitation of Lama Prayers--Decora...
10. CHAPTER X.Purchase of a Sheep--A Mongol Butcher--Great Feast _a la 210 Tartare_--Tartar Veterinary Surgeons--Strange Cure of a Cow--Depth of the Wells of the Ortous--Manner of Watering th...
5. CHAPTER V.The Old Blue Town--Quarter of the Tanners--Knavery of the 109 Chinese Traders--Hotel of the Three Perfections--Spoliation of the Tartars by the Chinese--Money Changer's Office--...
2. CHAPTER II.Inn at Tolon-Noor--Aspect of the City--Great Foundries of 33 Bells and Idols--Conversation with the Lamas of Tolon-Noor--Encampment--Tea Bricks--Meeting with Queen Mourguevan--T...
1. CHAPTER I.French Mission of Peking--Glance at the Kingdom of 9 Ouniot--Preparations for Departure--Tartar-Chinese Inn--Change of Costume--Portrait and Character of Samdadchiemba--Sain-Oul...
6. CHAPTER VI.A Tartar-eater--Loss of Arsalan--Great Caravan of 128 Camels--Night Arrival at Tchagan-Kouren--We are refused Admission into the Inns--We take up our abode with a Shepherd--Over...
9. CHAPTER IX.Departure of the Caravan--Encampment in a fertile 188 Valley--Intensity of the Cold--Meeting with numerous Pilgrims--Barbarous and Diabolical Ceremonies of Lamanism--Project for...
7. CHAPTER VII.Mercurial Preparation for the Destruction of 147 Lice--Dirtiness of the Mongols--Lama Notions about the Metempsychosis--Washing--Regulations of Nomadic Life--Aquatic and Passage...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Glance at the Country of the Ortous--Cultivated 165 Lands--Sterile, sandy steppes of the Ortous--Form of the Tartar-Mongol Government--Nobility--Slavery--A small Lamasery--Elect...