Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China during the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1
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 the Animals--Encampment at the Hundred Wells--Meeting with the King of the Alechan--Annual Embassies of the Tartar Sovereigns to Peking--Grand Ceremony in the Temple of the Ancestors--The Emperor gives Counterfeit Money to the Mongol Kings--Inspection of our Geographical Map--The Devils Cistern--Purification of the Water--A Lame Dog--Curious Aspect of the Mountains--Passage of the Yellow River